OK, so riddle me this:
In 'Gender Imitation and subobordination' (reproduced in C Lemert's Collection Social Theory, 1991) Judith Butler critiques the positions of objectification (bad, obviously) subjectivity (bad she says because it implies objectification of others, of which I am not convinced) and then raises a third way, which avoids both of these traps...
...the 'abject'.
When I come to look this up, my thesaurus gives the synonyms cowering, obeisant, subservient and obsequious.
Is this the programme - cowering, obeisant, subservient and obsequious? -- Jim heartfield