{"product_id":"revolting-indolence-the-politics-of-slacking-lounging-and-daydreaming-in-queer-and-trans-latinx-culture-paperback-softback-9781477330517","title":"Revolting Indolence; The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477330517","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRevolting Indolence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarcos Gonsalez (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477330517\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages, 17 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.286 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRevolting Indolence\u003c\/i\u003e is a radical defense of laziness as a world-making practice for queer and trans Latinx artists. Marcos Gonsalez’s unexpected and highly complex critical moves engage an extraordinary archive, ranging from Angie Xtravaganza in \u003ci\u003eParis Is Burning\u003c\/i\u003e to Valentina in RuPaul’s \u003ci\u003eDrag Race\u003c\/i\u003e; the photography of Reynaldo Rivera; the literary memorialization of Pulse Orlando; Justin Torres’s debut novel \u003ci\u003eWe the Animals\u003c\/i\u003e; the art of Sarah Zapata; and the paintings of David Antonio Cruz. This is truly a paradigm-shifting work.\u003c\/div\u003e - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan, author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance \u003cdiv\u003eIn this stunningly original and brilliantly argued book, Marcos Gonsalez compels us to take indolence seriously. Illuminating the liberatory potential of leisureliness as indexed by a spectacular archive of literary, visual, and everyday life practices, \u003ci\u003eRevolting Indolence\u003c\/i\u003e offers a much-needed critical framework that resists sanctimonious demands for affirmative representation while maintaining an audacious grasp of inassimilable modes of queerness.\u003c\/div\u003e - Richard T. Rodríguez, UC Riverside, author of A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolting Indolence\u003c\/i\u003e makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate the unwillingness of their participation in “productivist” ethics and allied respectability politics, Marcos Gonsalez argues that slacking off, lounging, daydreaming, and partying are liberatory practices-revolts that in turn are treated as revolting. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Gonsalez explores how queer and trans Latinx artists refute discourses in which work is a moral good. In \u003ci\u003eParis Is Burning\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRuPaul's Drag Race\u003c\/i\u003e, documentary photography of queer and trans Latinx life in Los Angeles, and other sources, Gonsalez identifies two lazy styles: first, flagrant refusals of work that critique capitalist reason; and second, the invention of alternative aesthetic worlds beyond racial capitalism and violence targeting queer and trans people, whose rejection of the cisgender nuclear family paradigm is rightly seen as threatening the stability of a functioning capitalist system. Reclaiming laziness as a resource for radical imagining, \u003ci\u003eRevolting Indolence\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to do that which we want most and which capitalist exploitation can least tolerate: to slow down. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Liberating Indolence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Glimpsing Angie Xtravaganza: The Trans Latinx Imaginary of \u003ci\u003eParis Is Burning\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Lounge Lizard Aesthetics: Los Angeles Nightlife Visualities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. The Poetics of Latin Night: The Literatures of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Slacking Off on the Mainstage: \u003ci\u003eRuPaul's Drag Race\u003c\/i\u003e and the Performance of Spectacular Obfuscation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. The Textures of Our Daydreaming: Justin Torres's \u003ci\u003eWe the Animals\u003c\/i\u003e and the Art of Sarah Zapata\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoda: Nobody Wants to Work Anymore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591020605720,"sku":"9781477330517","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/revolting-indolence-the-politics-of-slacking-lounging-and-daydreaming-in-queer-and-trans-latinx-culture-paperback-softback-9781477330517","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}