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SUMMARY:The Death of the Clinic: Benoît Loiseau in conversation with Sar
 ah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE\\nWeaving together biography\\, memoi
 r and cultural history\\, The Death of the Clinic is a groundbreaking exp
 loration of five experimental clinics in recent Western history: a sex cl
 inic housed in a stately mansion in Weimar Berlin\\; a preventive health 
 centre in pre-NHS London\\; a post-war institute of psychiatry and medica
 l philosophy in a French château\\; a feminist health centre born from t
 he women’s liberation movement in Geneva\\; and a grassroots research i
 nitiative featuring clinical trials run by and for people with AIDS in 19
 80s–90s New York. \\nLoiseau’s investigation is anchored in his own 
 encounters with medical care and in the quiet influence of one health wor
 ker who shaped his life: his mother. In moving and reflective interludes 
 addressed to her\\, Loiseau illuminates the emotional and ethical stakes 
 of medicine today. Reframing Michel Foucault’s seminal book\\, Loiseauâ
 €™s The Death of the Clinic is a radical invitation to rethink the clinic
  – not as a fixed institution but as a living\\, evolving practice root
 ed in care\\, resistance and collective imagination.\\nThere will be a si
 gning after the event. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
 \\nBenoît Loiseau is a writer\\, critic and scholar of French and compar
 ative literature. A founding editor of queer anthology The BitterSweet Re
 view\\, he has written for ArtReview\\, frieze\\, the Guardian\\, the New
  York Times and The White Review. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow a
 t New York University and Paris 8 University. The Death of the Clinic (Fi
 tzcarraldo Editions / Yale University Press\\, 2026) is his first book. H
 is next book\\, provisionally titled The Queer Art of Autofabulation: Dis
 obedient Self-Fictions After HIV/AIDS\\, is forthcoming with NYU Press.\\
 nSarah Schulman is a novelist\\, playwright\\, screenwriter\\, nonfiction
  writer\\, and AIDS historian. She teaches creative writing at Northweste
 rn University and is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her
  21st book is The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity. \\nThe Bureau of 
 General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\\
 , located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Su
 nday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave 
 A C E trains. Our cafe\\, The Bureau Cafe\\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 
 9am-7pm. \\nAdvance Praise\\n‘&#8230\\;Benoît Loiseau offers us a dif
 ferent way through twentieth-century queer and trans histories&#8230\\; T
 his is a stunning book that juxtaposes fine-grained histories of medicine
 \\, anarchy\\, psychiatry and resistance.’—Jack Halberstam\\, author 
 of Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto\\n‘…an inspirin
 g\\, essential book.’ —Chris Kraus\\, author of The Four Spent the Da
 y Together\\n‘…this is a book of a generation with the potential to m
 ake\\, and remake\\, the world.’ — Joseph Osmundson\\, author of Spaw
 ning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood\\n‘Intimate and erudite\
 \, breathtaking in its historical analysis and philosophical range&#8230\
 \;’ — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore\\, author of Terry Dactyl\\nhttps:/
 /www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/new-york/events/the-death-of-the
 -clinic-beno-t-loiseau-in-conversation-with-sarah-schulman-2026-10-02
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services-Queer Division
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