>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'.
Hmm, I thought the abject was necessary for a dominant regime to function as a norm, and if the abject refused/played with their abjection it would fuck things up.
Doug