Intimacy was supposed to be about optimism..
Intimacy was supposed to be about optimism, remember? But it is also formed around threats to the image of the world it seeks to sustain.
This special issue seeks to further ongoing conversations in the hu- manities and humanistic social sciences about the modes of attachment
that make persons public and collective and that make collective scenes intimate spaces. The essays to follow begin to catalog some of intimacy’s norms, forms, and crimes: how public institutions use issues of intimate life to normalize particular forms of knowledge and practice and to create compliant subjects (Poovey, Grayson, Povinelli, Warner and Berlant); how discourses of sexual suffering or trauma have so magnetized crises in a whole set of related fields that stories of the intimate have become insepa- rable from, for example, stories about citizenship, capitalism, aesthetic forms, political violence, and the writing of history (Hanchard, Boym, Herzog, Kipnis, Poovey, Vogler, Povinelli, Warner and Berlant); how people become surprised by the ways ordinary exchanges become intensi- fied performances of mutuality and grounded by the centrality of ritual- ized language for intimacy (Sedgwick, Feld, Vogler, Kipnis); how memory works to create portable scenes that remind one of past intimacies and perform their strange reappearance in unusual spaces (Boym, Herzog, Povinelli, Sedgwick, Feld) and usual ones (Snyder and Letinsky).
The work of this “special issue” is not finished, not by a long shot. The vicissitudes of editing and deadlines leave me longing for more cases, more narratives, more attempts to bring to expression the ways attach- ments make worlds and world-changing fantasies, bribe people to live what should be unlivable relations of domination and violence, and so on. There is neither psychoanalytically based exploration in this issue, nor work on cinema, television, literature, or less globalized media, like stamps or zines; and its general presentness and focus on normativity suggest other places that future work might go. But I should stop here. Introductions are captions to the image a text makes, and like Joel Sny- der, who curated Laura Letinsky’s photos but wanted to caption them only minimally, I wanted to chart the project for you without overinter- preting the work that follows. In any case, let me thank my hard-working authors and producers here; the editors on the masthead who reviewed many essays with me; the friends, authors, and colleagues who read the introduction (Bill Brown, Laura Kipnis, Beth Povinelli, Roger Rouse, Ka- tie Stewart, Candace Vogler, Michael Warner, Lisa Wedeen); and Jay Wil- liams, Aeron Hunt, Jennifer Peterson, Zarena Aslami, and Neda Ulaby, who did the hard editorial work of actually putting the issue together. Thanks also to Allan Sekula for perm
ission to use his image on the cover. Finally, should any readers be interested in submitting to CI work related to this intimacy project, they should flag it as such. Then, perhaps, we can look forward to clusters of intimacy in future issues.
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Issue Table of Contents
Critical Inquiry, Vol. 24, No. 2, Intimacy (Winter, 1998), pp. 281-637
Front Matter
Intimacy: A Special Issue [pp. 281-288]
Adultery [pp. 289-327]
Sex and Talk [pp. 328-365]
Sex in America [pp. 366-392]
“Pleasure, Sex, and Politics Belong Together”: Post-Holocaust Memory and the Sexual Revolution in West Germany [pp. 393-444]
They Repeatedly Lick Their Own Things [pp. 445-472]
Jody [pp. 473-497]
On Diasporic Intimacy: Ilya Kabakov’s Installations and Immigrant Homes [pp. 498-524]
Mediating Intimacy: Black Surrogate Mothers and the Law [pp. 525-546]
Sex in Public [pp. 547-566]
Coupling [pp. 567-574]
The State of Shame: Australian Multiculturalism and the Crisis of Indigenous Citizenship [pp. 575-610]
A Dialogue on Love [pp. 611-631]
Books of Critical Interest [pp. 632-637]
Back Matter
Intimacy was supposed to be about optimism.
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