Being Sexual

Abstract

Drawing on the points raised in previous chapters, here I further reflect on the possibility of thinking of a post-sovereign notion of sexual and political agency, and expand on a relational approach to desire, going deeper into the idea of liminality. Moving from the political towards the poetic, I propose the figure of a sexual threshold to highlight the liminal character of desire, and therefore, the ultimate impossibility of giving a full account of it. Taking the case of migration as an example of the myriad forms of dislocation we experience in daily life, not least of all passion and the erotic features of embodiment, the other trope that helps me figure the dislocated character of the erotic and embodiment is that of diasporic sexuality. These figures, albeit rather speculative, are ultimately intended to evoke some of the main preoccupations that prompted this book, namely, the possibility of thinking about political sexual agency beyond liberalism, to reflect upon different vocabularies of desire. These vocabularies may question the centrality that sexual identity based on object choice has acquired within established liberal scripts, and open potential paths for imagining sexual freedom otherwise.