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

From: Hypatia
Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 2005
pp. 21-53 | 10.1353/hyp.2005.0006

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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