ABSTRACT
A polity as conceived in the previous chapter asks that we rethink the ways in which we make ourselves hospitable to others by making ourselves radically open to alterity, even if that requires a sacrifice of that which we currently are. In this chapter, I explore the relationship between sacrifice and hospitality as it plays out in gay “pigsex” and as it has been theorised in contemporary philosophy. Highlighting how hospitality always requires a degree of self-obliteration, I grapple with the extent to which self-sacrifice may, nonetheless, still be a pathway to forge subjectivities and collectivities anew. Yet, there is always a risk that practices of radical openness such as the ones sustaining gay “pig” subjectivities may be taken too far to the point of radical self-annihilation. Thus, in order for the self to be undone on behalf of what could become more capacious embodied subjectivities and liveable communal formations, structures of care and comradeship ought to be forged, nurtured, and made available, so that no sacrifice is definitive and sex can cease to be reduced to a mere pursuit of self-annihilation, coming instead to be embodied and lived as a legitimate world-making practice that may set us all on a path towards new unknown islands of queer pleasure, solidarity, and possibility.
