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

Hypatia 20 (1):21-53 (2005)
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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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We have never been modern.Bruno Latour - 1993 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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