Куиър чувства
Queer Feelings

Summary/Abstract: In this excerpt from The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2008) Sara Ahmed initiates a discussion on ‘queer feelings’ by examining the affective potential of queerness. The first section offers a critical analysis of the connection between norms and affects in debates on queer families; suggesting that rather than thinking of queer families as an extension of an ideal; we can begin to reflect on the exposure of the failure of the ideal as part of the work that queer families are doing. The second section explores the role of grief in queer politics with specific reference to queer responses to 9/11. In the final section Ahmed elaborates on the role of pleasure in queer lifestyles or countercultures. The theoretician makes the crucial point that it is important not to identify queer as outside the global economy; which transforms ‘pleasures’ into ‘profit’ by exploiting the labour of others; yet Ahmed demonstrates that the way in which queer pleasures can circulate as commodities within global capitalism; can also challenge social norms; as forms of investment.

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