J. Jack Halberstam:
What's Gaga Got to Do With It?
Tuesday 11 December, 2012
6:30 - 8pm, $0
New York University
20 Cooper Square, Floor 4
In Gaga Feminism, Jack Halberstam locates Lady Gaga as less an icon than an avatar for new forms of gender and sex politics. The power of “gaga†bubbles up from surrealist movements of the 1920′s to situationist happenings in the 1960′s and then takes the shape of queer anarchist politics in our unfolding present. Arguing for an anarcho-queer theory project that dis-organizes itself around feminist figures like Emma Goldman and Shulamith Firestone and that builds on the creative theoretical projects of Fred Moten, the Invisible Committee and others, this talk traces “gaga†back to earlier musical and political moments of going gaga and forward to occupation movements and direct action groups. The talk finally asks what, if anything, Lady Gaga has to do with feminism, queer studies or anarchism.
J. Jack Halberstam is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books — Female Masculinity, The Drag King Book, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, and most recently The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011) and Gaga Feminism (Beacon Press, 2012) — and numerous articles, and the editor of several volumes. Halberstam teaches in Gender Studies and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC and is currently writing and reading about new ways of unbeing human.
J. Jack Halberstam is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books — Female Masculinity, The Drag King Book, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, and most recently The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011) and Gaga Feminism (Beacon Press, 2012) — and numerous articles, and the editor of several volumes. Halberstam teaches in Gender Studies and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC and is currently writing and reading about new ways of unbeing human.