Color codes: Campt; Halberstam; Both
1.How can one listen to an image in Campt's terms? What are the lower frequencies of the ‘quiet’ photographs she discusses?
2.What does the ‘wild’ and the scream do according to Halberstam?
How does this relate to Muñoz’s description of the queerness as utopian potentiality and to Campt’s black futurity?
3. What is ‘gaga feminism’?
How does noise, breakdown, resonance, rhythm and dissonance relate to Campt’s concept of the hum and practices of refusal? (Think about the scream vs. the quiet images)
4. How does Lady Gaga represent an alternative feminism and what is the problem with building contemporary (post)feminism around her? What kind of gender performances does she enact alongside Grace Jones, Poly Styrene and Rhoda Dakar?
How do they compare with the gender performances discussed by Campt?
5. What are the methods the two authors use in challenging the existing (linguistic) structures through bringing together different archives? What does this produce in the research presented and what are these existing linguistic structures? And why do they both see the experience of shifting forms of signification as worthy of our attention?
6. What is the difference between identity politics and ‘transfigurative politics’ (Campt 2017, 43)? How do they relate to practices of refusal?