Ep. 7: Queer Ecologies

This instalment of Unbox the Soap has emerged from an rMA tutorial on Queer Ecologies. In those sessions, we explored how queerness, ecology and negativity intersect and interact, sometimes in complimentary and contradictory ways. This episode features Franek Dziduch, Richard-Josephine Weichert and Nia Daskalova, who introduce, discuss and analyse three objects: Zuzanna Ginczanka’s poem “Explanation in the Margins”, p.Wrecks’ feature on Menes the Pharoah's track “Impest”, and Daisy Lafarge’s poem “dog rose duende”. Together, they open portals to reading for "queer ecologies" by addressing these objects in the voices of new materialism, object-oriented ecology, psychoanalysis, decolonial theory, and more.

Works mentioned:

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Dean, Tim. “Lacan and Queer Theory.” The Cambridge Companion to Lacan, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 238–52.

Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Duke University Press, 2004.

—. Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing. Duke University Press, 2022.

Ginczanka, Zuzanna. Zuzanna Ginczanka. Poezje Zebrane. Edited by Izolda Kiec, Marginesy, 2019.

Ginczanka, Zuzanna. On Centaurs & Other Poems. Originally published in 1936. Translated by Alex Breslavsky. World Poetry Books, 2023.

Goodman, Steve. Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear. MIT Press, 2012.

Halberstam, Jack. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York University Press, 2005.

Kiec, Izolda. Ginczanka. Nie Upilnije Mnie Nikt. Marginesy, 2020.

Lafarge, Daisy. “dog rose duende.” Life Without Air, Granta Publications Ltd, 2020, pp. 70-71.

Morton, Timothy. “Guest Column: Queer Ecology.” PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, vol. 125, no. 2, Mar. 2010, pp. 273–82, https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2010.125.2.273.

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Povinelli, Elizabeth A. “The World Is Flat: And Other Super Weird Ideas.” Object-Oriented Feminism, U of Minnesota Press, 2016, pp. 107–21.

Seymour, Nicole. Strange Natures : Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination. University Of Illinois Press, 2013.

Swarbrick, Steven. The Environmental Unconscious. U of Minnesota Press, 2023.