A queer feminist theory of democracy

Introduction: Democracy in present tense
Ch 1 Rousseau: Assembly instead of representation
Ch 2 Derrida: Democracy-to-come
Ch 3 Benjamin: Leaps of Now-Time
Ch 4 Foucault: infinite presence
Ch 5 Negri: Democracy and constituting power
Ch 6 Presentist Democracy: Practices of care and queer debts

Isabell Lorey is a political theorist and a Queer Studies Professor at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne and works for transversal texts (transversal.at), the publication platform of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp). She is the author of several books, including State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious.