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\nDISSERTATION  \nsubmitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of  \nDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY  \nin Comparative Literature  \nby  \nMichael Simmons  \nDissertation Committee: Professor Eyal Amiran, Chair Professor Rei Terada  \nAssociate Professor Herschel Farbman  \n© 2019 Michael Simmons  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nPage  \nLIST OF FIGURES iii  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS iv  \nVITA v  \nABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION vi  \nINTRODUCTION 1  \nCHAPTER 1: Gender Neutrality in Public Bathrooms 48  \nCHAPTER 2: How to Fix Bathroom Signs 81  \nCHAPTER 3: Psychoanalysis and Neutrality in Queer Theory 105  \nCHAPTER 4: Race and Neutrality in Queer Theory 130  \nAPPENDIX A: The Saneclock Society: Queer Neutrality in Fortnite 154  \nWORKS CITED 182  \nLIST OF FIGURES  \nPage  \nFigure 1 Hommes/Dames Bathroom Signs 81  \nFigure 2 Hommes/Dames/Dames Bathroom Signs 93  \nFigure 3 Hommes/Dames/Neutre Bathroom Signs 96  \nFigure 4 Neutre Bathrooms Signs 99  \nFigure 5 Hommes/Dames/Dames/Neutre Bathroom Signs 102  \nFigure 6 Dames/Dames/Neutre Bathroom Signs 102  \nFigure 7 UCI HIB Second-Floor Bathroom Signs 103  \nFigure 8 ~~ Dames~~/~~Dames~~/~~Neutre~~ Bathroom Signs 104  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nThank you to my friends, teachers, advisors, parents, and cats for making this dissertation possible.  \nVITA  \nMichael Simmons  \n2009 A.A., Philosophy, Irvine Valley College  \n2012 B.A., Philosophy, UC Irvine  \n2012 B.A., Women’s Studies, UC Irvine  \n2014 M.A., Comparative Literature, A.O.E. Visual Studies, UC Irvine  \n2019 Ph.D., Comparative Literature, UC Irvine  \nFIELDS OF STUDY  \nQueer Theory, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalysis, Afropessimism  \nABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION  \nNeutrality in Queer Theory  \nBy  \nMichael Simmons  \nDoctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature  \nUniversity of California, Irvine, 2019  \nProfessor Eyal Amiran, Chair  \nThis dissertation interprets the meaning of U.S. queer theory’s rhetoric of identity neutrality or impersonality in the context of antisocial queer theory’s reception of the identity politics in queer theory’s constituent and sibling theories, namely feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory (especially of sexual difference), utopian queer of color critique, and Afropessimism. The chapters collectively offer a comparative analysis of the rhetoric of identity neutrality across the work and reception of queer theorists of the subversion of identity, particularly Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, José Muñoz, John Paul Ricco, Tim Dean, and Lee Edelman. The first two chapters complicate the issue by tracking conceptual inheritances and disciplinary citations in the queer rhetoric of gender neutrality and sexual difference within the scope of public bathroom politics, and the second and third chapters clarify the rhetorical devices that queer theorists use to negotiate with the tension between psychoanalytic sexual difference and racial positioning in antisocial queer theory and Afropessimism respectively. Each chapter reframes the rhetorical principles and potentials of queer neutrality by building from and offering close (re)readings of Jacques Lacan’s accounts of: urinary segregation, fixations on sexual and racial difference, psychoanalytic neutrality, and masochism.  \nIntroduction  \nThis introduction addresses several questions that prepare us to understand why I take identity neutrality in queer theory seriously in the following chapters. First, what is queer antiidentitarianism, and where did it come from? Second, how do feminist identity politics challenge queer anti-identitarianism, and how do queer theorists of neutrality respond to feminist identity politics? Finally, how do queer theorists disagree about identity and queer neutrality? To begin to clarify what is going on in disagreements over how to talk about queer neutrality, I also explain in this introduction how French theory motivates the way quite a few queer theorists talk about neutrality as a resistance to binary logics.","cbCaiaxDqtZNbQ84","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaxDqtZNbQ84","pdf",4965856,199,"English","# Introduction\n## Queer anti-identitarianism and neutrality in queer theory\n# Chapter 1: Gender Neutrality in Public Bathrooms\n# Chapter 2: How to Fix Bathroom Signs\n# Chapter 3: Psychoanalysis and Neutrality in Queer Theory\n# Chapter 4: Race and Neutrality in Queer Theory\n# Appendix A: The Saneclock Society: Queer Neutrality in Fortnite\n# Works Cited","[{\"question\":\"What does the dissertation mean by identity neutrality in queer theory?\",\"answer\":\"It treats identity neutrality as a rhetoric of impersonality that shapes how antisocial queer theory receives identity politics within queer theory’s affiliated frameworks.\"},{\"question\":\"Which theorists does the dissertation focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The dissertation conducts comparative analysis of rhetorical approaches to queer neutrality across key theorists including Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, José Muñoz, John Paul Ricco, Tim Dean, and Lee Edelman.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the chapters connect neutrality to public bathroom politics and to psychoanalysis?\",\"answer\":\"Chapters one and two track conceptual inheritances and disciplinary citations in queer rhetoric of gender neutrality through public bathroom politics, while chapter three clarifies the rhetorical devices used to negotiate psychoanalytic sexual difference and queer neutrality.\"}]","Neutrality in Queer Theory - Dissertation | PDF",501]