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The Productive Power of Ambiguity: Rethinking Homosexuality through the Virtual and Developmental Systems Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Ann Burlein
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Abstract

This paper juxtaposes Deleuze's notion of the virtual alongside Oyama's notion of a developmental system in order to explore the promises and perils of thinking bodily identity as indeterminate at a time when new technologies render bodily ambiguity increasingly productive of both economic profit and power relations.

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Hypatia , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , Winter 2005 , pp. 21 - 53
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Copyright © 2005 by Hypatia, Inc.

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