> From: shag <shag at cleandraws.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] O-bomb-a's economic advisers
>
> ... what others, analyzing Catherine MacKinnon's
> rhetoric, have called the copula ...
>
> Where can I find this analysis? Would love to see it.
Hey Tahir -- nice to see you back.
It's from Judith Butler, IIRC, in the volume _Feminism and Pornography_. The author, Drucilla Cornell also speaks to this analysis, as does Wendy Brown's complementary analysis of MacKinnon's rhetoric which, they argue, basically "fucks the reader" of antipornography agitprop.
Another decent overview of how this connects to social theory more generally -- and why this particular kind of rhetoric in identity politics is troubling -- is in Janet Halley's _Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break From Feminism_. You can also read about it at dead bitch|lab / Queer Dewd, http://blog.pulpculture.org. Do a search on copula or janet halley seminar. I'd do it for you but, uh, I'm at work and my own blog is kinda NOT Safe for Work (NSFW) -- which is another reason why it's dead. heh.
speaking of and BTW, I forgot to mention, to Dwayne re your post Twilight of the Super Heroines, thanks. That whole mess -- well, I've given up trying to understand any of it. If you have insight, I'd love another perspective.
> In my own definition fascism precisely is hyper-nationalism; and there
> have been black men all over Africa who have embraced it, but I guess
> reference here was to black men in the US only?
>
> Tahir
I agree. And yeah, since my earlier comments were about the u.s. election and a later sentence was "And I think it's perfectly possible for blacks and lots of people of color here in the u.s. to embrace that" i figured it was obvious I was speaking about blacks in the u.s. Sorry for not being more clear, though. Terribly murikan of me.
shag -- http://cleandraws.com Wear Clean Draws ('coz there's 5 million ways to kill a CEO)