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Thursday 24th of October, 2024, 15.00-17.00
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ABSTRACT
Moments of political discord among queer folks remind us of the troubling character inherent to the all too familiar parlance of “the community”. In the post-Nazi space, the imagined queer community was brutally shattered in the wake of October 7, 2023. This paper argues that the moment in which the imagination of a queer community shatters is also an optimistic moment of truth that might facilitate other configurations of a queer togetherness, however fractured and fragile, which I will compose in the conceptual language of a queer commons. The paper engages with the singular political dynamics around Israel/Palestine in the post-Nazi space whose ostensible limitations are comprehended and tested as an economy of guilt vis-à-vis a queer debt. This latter para-economic paradigm derived from the writings of Black Studies is invoked as a model to think through the incommensurable political struggles that manifest with “Queers for Palestine”. It is equally foundational for a more expansive conception of a queer commons.
Tyan Fritschy is theorist and works at the intersection of political philosophy, queer-feminist theory and postcolonial theory and addresses questions of body politics, property, sexuality, relations, and education. They obtained a master’s degree in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and one in Critical Studies at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, and taught at the Zürich University of the Arts, the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, University of Klagenfurt and University of Vienna. They are member of the working group inter*trans*non-binary of the Austrian society of Gender Studies (ÖGGF) and they live and work in Vienna.
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