ABSTRACT
The aim of and the assumptions underlying this essay fall largely in line with Leo Bersani’s necessarily almost “defensive” comments on queer critical method in the passage below. In a conversation with Tim Dean, Hal Foster, and Kaja Silverman, he suggests that
The problem with queer politics as we now define it is that, however broad its reach may be, it is still a micropolitics focused on numerous particular issues which there is no reason to believe will ever be exhausted if the fundamental types of community and relationality out of which such issues spring are not themselves questioned and attacked. And that activity has to be, at least for the moment, an activity of the intellectual imagination-one for which the micropoliticians often have no use or patience, but which seems to me no less an activity and no more of a luxury than our immediate and our, of course, vital concrete struggles.1
