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Against the tyranny of the fact: Autofabulation as a queer strategy of resistance

Author(s): Loiseau, Benoît

Abstract

Queerness has always had a particularly vexed relationship to evidence. Because the latter has historically served to discipline the former, José Esteban Muñoz suggests that anecdotes can become queer acts of resistance against the ‘potential tyranny of the fact’. Drawing on this argument, this article examines the ways in which American artist, filmmaker, and AIDS activist Gregg Bordowitz uses autofabulation to destabilise evidential discourses in his performance practice. Specifically, it looks at ‘Some Styles of Masculinity’ (2017-ongoing), a series of anecdotal monologues in which Bordowitz reflects on the formation of his identity as a queer Jewish man living with HIV.

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Loiseau, Benoît: Against the tyranny of the fact: Autofabulation as a queer strategy of resistance. In: NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 11 (2022), Nr. 1, S. 111-127. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18839.
@ARTICLE{Loiseau2022,
 author = {Loiseau, Benoît},
 title = {Against the tyranny of the fact: Autofabulation as a queer strategy of resistance},
 year = 2022,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18839}",
 volume = 11,
 journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 1,
 pages = {111--127},
}
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