Mark Joseph O’Connell Fiction (MARKOCONNELLSTUDIO)

The Listening Machine and Other Stories The Listening Machine and Other Stories is a collection about love that endures, even as it fractures…about art, memory, Queerness, and the fragile work of hope. Across present-day lives and near-future imaginings, Mark Joseph O’Connell traces intimate moments of connection: an astrophotographer searching the night sky for forgiveness, artists and lovers reshaped by time and ambition, unexpected romances born in protest and creation, and a lonely man whose bond with an AI reveals theRead more

Dr. Mark Joseph O’Connell Queer History (Queerstory) Lectures

Guy Hocquenghem and the Radical Reimagining of Queer Life Guy Hocquenghem (1946–1988) was one of the first openly Gay intellectuals to articulate a radically political theory of sexuality. Writing at the intersection of Marxism, psychoanalysis, and post-1968 revolutionary politics, Hocquenghem rejected both liberal identity politics and assimilationist gay rights, arguing instead that homosexuality exposes the repressive foundations of capitalist, familial, and state power. In Homosexual Desire (1972), he builds upon and critiques Freud and Deleuze–Guattari to frame desire as aRead more

Dr. Mark Joseph O’Connell Fashion History Lectures

From Medici Court to “Made in Italy”: Fashion, Power, and the Palazzo Pitti In this lecture, Dr. Mark Joseph O’Connell explores fashion as a system of power, memory, and cultural authority through one extraordinary institution: the Museo della Moda e del Costume in Florence’s Palazzo Pitti. Founded in 1983 as Italy’s first state museum devoted to fashion, the Museo della Moda e del Costume occupies a unique position in global fashion museology. Unlike institutions such as the Victoria and AlbertRead more