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Lynne Huffer, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Womens and Gender Studies at Emory University to speaks widely about the body of her work, including her\xa0her new book,\xa0Foucault\u2019s Strange Eros, out in 2020 with Columbia University Press.\xa0\nWhat is the strange eros that haunts Foucault\u2019s writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault\u2019s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority of the thinking subject. Focusing on the ethical implications of this mode of thought, Huffer shows how Foucault\u2019s poetic archival method offers a way to counter the disciplining of speech.\nAt the heart of this method is a conception of the archive as Sapphic: the past\u2019s remains are, like Sappho\u2019s verses, hole-ridden, scattered, and dissolved by time. Listening for eros across fragmented texts, Huffer stages a series of encounters within an archive of literary and theoretical readings: the eroticization of violence in works by Freud and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the historicity of madness in the Foucault-Derrida debate, the afterlives of Foucault\u2019s antiprison activism, and Monique Wittig\u2019s Sapphic materialism. Through these encounters,\xa0Foucault\u2019s Strange Eros\xa0conceives of ethics as experiments in living that work poetically to make the present strange. Crafting fragments that dissolve into Sapphic brackets, Huffer performs the ethics she describes in her own practice of experimental writing.\xa0Foucault\u2019s Strange Eros\xa0hints at the self-hollowing speech of an eros that opens a space for the strange.\n Jana Byars\xa0is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies