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The Productive Power of Ambiguity: Rethinking Homosexuality through the Virtual and Developmental Systems Theory
Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2005.tb00372.x
2005 by Hypatia, Inc.
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BURLEIN, A. (2005), The Productive Power of Ambiguity: Rethinking Homosexuality through the Virtual and Developmental Systems Theory. Hypatia, 20: 21–53. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2005.tb00372.x
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- Issue published online: 9 JAN 2009
- Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
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This paper juxtaposes Deleuze's notion of the virtual alongside Oyama's notion of a developmental system in order to explore the promises and perils of thinking bodily identity as indeterminate at a time when new technologies render bodily ambiguity increasingly productive of both economic profit and power relations.