ABSTRACT
The Conclusion summarises the main arguments from the chapters that prefer some constructive disruption rather than political pessimism, anarchy, and nihilism which can affectively evacuate all energy and hope. From the circulation of the embodied-global-national assemblage, be it in the digital, the affirmative action movement, internationalisation, or leadership, gendered and heterosexualised norms tied to nationalism are produced. The authors discuss how affective capitalism means that affects are mobilised and manipulated to further the goals of neoliberalism, and that queering involves keeping eyes wide open to the operations of discourses of knowledge as the effects of power on the body and on the production of interiority. Without wishing to taxonomise the contents of the book, and reduce complex arguments to yet another checklist or toolkit, ideas are offered for how the academy can be queered with new affective and political imaginaries.
