(Ir)rational Actors and the Politics of Unseeing

Resistance, Resilience, and the Lessons of the Plague Years

Moore, Marshall ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0638-0828 (2018) (Ir)rational Actors and the Politics of Unseeing. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, 46 (2). pp. 293-298. ISSN 08842043

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Abstract / Summary

China Mieville's novel The City & the City offers a vision of two overlapping, interpenetrating city-states: Ul Qoma and Besźel. Residents of one city are, by law, unable to see or interact with people in the other - even if they are physically next to each other but on the opposite side of the border. The experience presented in this book mimics the experience of being a gay man in the 1980s and 1990s, the worst of the AIDS years, when to be queer was to be seen and unseen at the same time. I argue that it is better to resist power structures that rest upon the politics of unseeing.

Item Type:	Article
ISSN:	08842043
Subjects:	Communication > Creative Writing Literature
Courses by Department:	The School of Communication
Related URLs:	https://www.pfw.edu/clio/docs/clio-46-2....
Depositing User:	Marshall Moore
Date Deposited:	20 Jul 2020 10:27
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2024 15:01
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/4015

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