Queer(y)ing Capitalist Organization

"Recently I attended a conference on globalization and global regulation which was organized by some left social scientists at a university in the USA. One thing I noticed in many of the contributions was the way in which everything was centered on or by capitalism, almost by default. Regulation was seen as focused upon capitalism and ultimately became part of a capitalist formation. Non-capitalist social sites (including the household and the state) were involved in the reproduction of capitalism, perhaps in new forms. Even opposition was situated within capitalism, defined and ultimately coopted by it. Over the course of the conference, what was incrementally produced was an image of a unified and univocal social space, the sort of thing that's called a “capitalist” society—or in this case a global capitalist economy or just global capitalism..."