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Gibt es eine intime Beziehung zwischen sexueller Freiheit und Marktfreiheit? Bilder dissidenter Sexualität und geschlechtlicher Ambiguität finden sich heute nicht nur in sexueller Subkultur, sondern auch in kommerzieller Werbung. Die entstehenden Überlappungsfelder - queere Diskurse in kommerziellen ebenso wie neoliberale Diskurse in queeren visuellen Produkten - sind Schauplätze kultureller Politiken. Aus einer queeren Perspektive lotet dieser Band das Verhältnis von Sexualität und neoliberaler Ökonomie aus: Wie bedingen sie sich wechselseitig? Fordern sie sich gegenseitig heraus? Die Studie bietet zudem methodische Anregungen zum Einsatz kulturwissenschaftlicher Bildlektüren in sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung.

Ambiguity has been the guiding motive of my queer theoretical considerations from the very beginning. Early on I propose to characterize queer politics through strategies of undisambiguation or equivocation (VerUneindeutigung) rather than diversification or abolishment of heteronormative sexual difference (Engel 2002). In the essay I will reconstruct the different epistemological steps from undisambiguation through queer politics of paradox to what I call today 'queerness as lived ambiguity'. I will explicate how the notion of ambiguity fulfills a double function in queer theory, namely underlining ambiguity's livability (multidimensional identities are neither stable nor coherent) and explaining its political potential (overcoming clear-cut borders and simplified antagonisms). In the main part of the essay I will focus on a_sociality as figure of ambiguity, arguing that queerness as lived ambiguity goes along with an understanding of relationality and kinship defined by a continuum or simultaneity of sociality, anti-sociality, and asociality, named a_sociality. My thesis is that in avowing the ambiguity of a_sociality it becomes possible to move towards forms of cohabitation under conditions of social and global heterogeneity. However, a_sociality is defined not only by ambiguity but also by ambivalence. It is from this proximate though distinct relation that politics evolve. What Judith Butler (2020) discusses as an ethical attitude of 'aggressive nonviolence' turns out to be an ambiguous term that fosters decisions that simultaneously acknowledge and overcome ambivalence.

The article provides a close reading of the video "Sometimes you fight for the world, sometimes you fight for yourself", dir. by Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz (2004, 5'). It reads the video as promoting what it calls a 'queer politics of paradox', that is, a politics that acknowledges desire as a constitutive moment of the political and at the same time challenges the political via a queer understanding of desire in order to make room for the political articulation of the Other. The article argues that a reworking of the political - one that aims at de-centring its hegemonic dynamic and creating space for Otherness - becomes possible if one invites paradox as a specific, anti-identitarian, and agonistic mode of tension to function as a constitutive moment of desire and of the political.

Antke Engel, Introduction to the lecture Jelisaveta Blagojević, Politics of Unthinkable: Desire On Love, Jealousy, and the Telephone , ICI Berlin, 28 April 2015, part 1, video recording, mp4, 06:52

Antke Engel, Introduction to the lecture Jelisaveta Blagojević, Politics of Unthinkable: Desire On Love, Jealousy, and the Telephone , ICI Berlin, 28 April 2015, part 2, video recording, mp4, 06:20

Antke Engel, Contribution to the roundtable desire Conserves desire Transgresses desire: On the Paradoxical Politics of Desire , ICI Berlin, 4 February 2015, video recording, mp4, 08:47

Antke Engel, Introduction to the lecture Drucilla Cornell, Rethinking Ethical Feminism and Sexual Politics Through uBuntu , ICI Berlin, 15 May 2012, video recording, mp4, 08:49