{"id":3645,"date":"2016-08-12T14:52:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/pleasures-of-complexity-and-confusion\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:08:51","slug":"pleasures-of-complexity-and-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/pleasures-of-complexity-and-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasures of Complexity and Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>publication on 10 years of Institute for Queer Theory<\/h2>\n<p>Mail order now! (or download the pdf for free, see below)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-cover-booklet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-cover-booklet.jpg\" alt=\"IMG cover booklet\" width=\"577\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-cover-booklet.jpg 577w, https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-cover-booklet-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-cover-booklet-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lust an Komplexit\u00e4t und Irritation<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Pleasures of Complexity and Confusion<\/strong><br \/>\n10 Jahre Institut f\u00fcr Queer Theory<br \/>\n10 Years Institute for Queer Theory<\/p>\n<p>Antke Engel, Jule Jakob Govrin, Eva von Redecker (eds.)<br \/>\nBerlin, 2016 (96 pages)<br \/>\nCopyright: Gender\/Queer e.V. (Berlin)<br \/>\nISBN 978-3-00-053141-5<br \/>\n\u20ac 8,- (\u20ac 10,- incl. postage)<\/p>\n<p>please order at: mail(at)queer-institut.de<\/p>\n<p>Or download the booklet as pdf: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-years-iQt.pdf\">10 years iQt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a first reading impression (lacking the visual pleasures of Laura Maikowsky&#8217;s marvellous layout) a 2-pages &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-from-the-iQt-booklet.pdf\">pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The institute\u2019s work is defined by taking pleasure in complexity, confusion, and controversy. Its overarching concern is a critical reflection on both the binary order of gender as well as heterosexual dominance. Its focus is on dismantling hierarchic, exclusionary, and normalizing modes of organizing gender and sexuality, without losing sight of how different power structures interweave with (and amongst) each other.<\/p>\n<p>Queer politics works within the paradoxical tension of fighting difference as a construction of inequality and fostering difference as uniqueness. The goal, however, is to promote non-hierarchic differences and to find an equally respectful and empowering way of interacting with asymmetries and the ineluctable otherness of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>publication on 10 years of Institute for Queer Theory: Queer politics works within the paradoxical tension of fighting difference as a construction of inequality and fostering difference as uniqueness. For this matter, strategies of queering, equivocation or undisambiguation foster pleasure in complexity, confusion, and controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[705,714],"tags":[1025,1026,798,730],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2016-en","category-publication-en","tag-10-years-iqt","tag-pleasure-en","tag-queer-politics-en","tag-queer-theory-en"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-cover-booklet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/panmCG-WN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6448,"href":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/6448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}