IS Public Lecture: Professor Peter McNeil

Queer Space - Privacy & Posturing:
Peter McNeil explores the queer space not in the societal sense but as a strange concoction of ideas. He talks about bringing together different skills from different disciplines to achieve these spaces as well as exploring how in the old society, the wealthy gain more freedom than the working class.
Throughout his lecture, he talks about a lot of different things, possibly to illustrate his topic in the most literal sense. He mixes many subjects to convey the term "Queer" from home decoration to an analysis of the Duchess of Winsor.
He quotes: "Queer describes a horizon of possibility whose precise extent and heterogeneous scope allows principles to be limited."

"To practise a stylistics of the self ultimately means to cultivate that part of oneself that leads beyond oneself"
- David Halperin, Saint Foucault

Peter McNeil then talks about looking at different cultures and times to gain "new ideas". He says that he "likes moving through time. " 

During McNeil's lecture, I was able to absorb many different ideas. He showed us the importance of revisiting the past and appropriating old ideas. He also emphasized the importance of an open mind and that through the use of different skills, a different result can be achieved.