ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces Michel Foucault's idea of biopower and its connection to Theodor Adorno's concept of the culture industry. Within the limits marked by these two theories and using works of Ross Chambers, Gayle Rubin and Michael Warner, the chapter locates the contradistinction between the practices of queer kinship and the narratives of the culture industry of AIDS. The latter is explored in more detail in the second half of the chapter, as the discussion moves to an analysis of heteronormative narratives of sexuality as evident in a number of popular texts about the epidemic, such as And the Band Played On, An Early Frost, The Normal Heart and Rent.
