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Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Thu Jul 5 16:24:49 PDT 2001



> Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> >
> > Judith Butler closes the book with an analysis of homosexuality in
the
> > military that founders on sentences like this: "Only within that
regulatory
> > discourse is the performative power of homosexual self-ascription
> > performatively produced."
>
>
> Oh good. I love inward bound tautologies: Only within that
regulatory
> discourse is the circular power of homosexual self-ascription
> circularitively produced...
>
> bubbles,
> ken
============ Why is tautology metaphorized as a circle? Self-reference as the 'gravitational architectonic' of logical 'space', perhaps? Finite and unbounding? It would seem post-identity logics are struggling with self-affine and self-similar dynamics and a suitable rhetoric.

Ian



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