Kvir zajedničko: politika prijateljstva, ljubavi i afekata
The queer common/s: politics of friendship, love and affects

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the relations between class struggles, critique of capitalism, and queer struggles through the commodification of desire and identitarian mystification of social and political histories, genealogies, and inequalities, and brings forward the concept and practices of queer common/s as a critical tool for queer politics and intersectional struggles. With the queer common/s, we address multiple perspectives and problems related to the Common/s. The queer commons, in our paper, mark at the same time, the lived experiences, the sedimented forms of life, and habituated genres of feeling and orientations towards the world, as much as what is in excess coming from the virtual, the undecidable and undetermined, the potential coming from the future and the relation with otherness, as a gesture of openness towards the potentiality of being-otherwise, becoming and forming alternative worlds, relations, belonging and commons, starting precisely from the social relationality and exposure testified by the everyday and historical experiences of queer people. This understanding of the queer commons is investigated in particular through three forms of relations, sociality and sensibility – friendship, love, and affects – all of which, in the history of Western experience, play a constitutive role in the collective political imaginations of community, politics, the nation, sovereignty, the subject, and embodiment, on the one hand, and they are also locations of re-articulation of these categories throughout the history of queer politics, cultures, and intimacy, on the other hand.

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