Dualistic thinking has been questioned by some writers associated with the material
ontological and affective turns. Yet these and other writers linked to the >turns< have
themselves reproduced dualistic theorizing. Caroline Braunmühl also shows that there are
dualistic patterns in significant contributions to queer theory as well as Foucauldian
diagnoses of the present. From a perspective sympathetic to the critical efforts made by
poststructuralist and related theorists she analyzes works by Sara Ahmed Karen Barad Michael
Hardt Antonio Negri Michel Foucault and others. The book suggests specific alternatives to
dualistic as well as identitarian ways of framing conceptual pairs such as matter mind affect
discourse and negativity affirmation.
