Who
Cares?
Queer Archives, Resistance, and the State
Discussion, 30 Sep 2026, 19:00
Since the beginning of the modern era, states have been preoccupied, as Michel Foucault claimed, not only with carceral justice and the general question of ‘who deserves to live’, but also with the growth and protection of the population in their biopolitical functions. The discussion will address the possibilities and responsibilities of queer theory in relation to the interests of LGBTQIA+ populations, the collecting strategies of affective and institutional archives, and the ways in which resistance might include, rather than exclude, making critical, queer claims against the state.
With Tomasz Basiuk, Nikita Dhawan, Antke Antek Engel, and Ewa Majewska Moderated by Annie Ring
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