#Wegotthis: queer parrhesia in the register of parodic paranoia

IF 1.2 4区管理学 Q4 MANAGEMENT

Culture and Organization Pub Date : 2022-05-05 DOI:10.1080/14759551.2022.2047679

S. Just, Erik Mygind du Plessis

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Queer parrhesia is an activist mode of speaking truth to power that destabilizes dominant societal positions and their opposition. We develop this concept and illustrate one of its registers, parodic paranoia, through a close reading of the whistleblower and transactivist Chelsea Manning’s bid to run for U.S. Senate in the 2018 Democratic primaries. Hacktivism and transactivism, we show, constitute rhetorical manoeuvres by which Manning performs (as) a subject position that combines an ethics of paranoia with an aesthetics of parody to enact politics as unusual. Beginning from Manning’s parodic paranoia, we conceptualize queer parrhesia as an inherently transgressive political style and discuss its performative potential for dismantling current social orders and imagining less orderly alternatives. The productive potential of queer parrhesia, we conclude, can only be realized when the subject position of the parrhesiastes is put at risk, gaining strength from its performative vulnerability and, indeed, failure.

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#我们得到了这个:模仿妄想症中的酷儿直言

摘要Queer-parhesia是一种向权力说真话的活动家模式，它破坏了社会主流地位及其反对者的稳定。我们发展了这个概念，并通过仔细阅读告密者和交易主义者切尔西·曼宁在2018年民主党初选中竞选美国参议员的过程，说明了它的一个记录，戏仿妄想症。我们表明，黑客主义和交易主义构成了修辞手法，曼宁通过这些修辞手法将偏执的伦理与戏仿的美学相结合，将政治表现得不同寻常。从曼宁的戏仿妄想症开始，我们将酷儿双关语概念化为一种固有的越轨政治风格，并讨论了其破坏当前社会秩序和想象不那么有序的替代方案的表演潜力。我们得出结论，只有当鹦鹉学舌的主体地位处于危险之中，从其表演的脆弱性中获得力量，甚至失败时，才能实现奇怪鹦鹉学语的生产潜力。

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Culture and Organization MANAGEMENT-

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3.20

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Culture and Organization was founded in 1995 as Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies . It represents the intersection of academic disciplines that have developed distinct qualitative, empirical and theoretical vocabularies to research organization, culture and related social phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as organizational, communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The Journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understanding of organizational phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understand-ing of organizational phenomena.