sorry to be slow here. I do see what you mean; Yoshie's use of the phrase did feed into exactly the assumption that Butler meant it to disrupt.
cheers
Liza
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Liza Featherstone <lfeather32 at erols.com>
>.... Of course you may be reacting to
>>Yoshie's use of the phrase, not Butler's, in which case none of this
>is
>>particularly helpful.
>
>
>actually, yes... but what you said about butler i agree with, which
>was kinda why i noted that indeed there was a discussion here, of the
>differential relation to claims of phallic possession, of their
>effectivity, and so on. i was objecting to the implications of
>yoshie's use of it as a crit; and, not necessarily how he might be
>thinking of it, but how it can so easily feed into a distinction
>between proper and improper claims of possession.
>
>angela
>
>
>