Journal article
Fascist energizing: rhetorics of transantagonism as affective metabolism
The Quarterly journal of speech, Vol.110(3), pp.442-459
07/09/2024
DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2024.2368572
Abstract
This introductory essay argues that trans rhetorics are a crucial method for grappling with the speed, scope, and ascendance of contemporary fascism. Yet, rhetorical studies have yet to robustly engage with trans methodologies and epistemologies, a refusal with dire consequences for academic labor in this climate and the future of the field. Pushing against the scarcity logics that render “trans issues” as “niche” or a “cultural war,” this essay develops a way of reading fascist energizing. Through the concept affective metabolism, I argue trans people are imagined as resources to exhaust, alongside others captured by grievance politics. Consequently, fascist energizing is a way of metabolizing fear into authoritarian control, with consequences for trans people alongside laborers in communities for reproductive justice, climate, and disability justice.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Fascist energizing: rhetorics of transantagonism as affective metabolism
- Creators
- E Cram - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Quarterly journal of speech, Vol.110(3), pp.442-459
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/00335630.2024.2368572
- ISSN
- 0033-5630
- eISSN
- 1479-5779
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 07/09/2024
- Academic Unit
- Communication Studies; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984658348002771
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