I think that I am too bewildered to be as angry as I probably should be. This may be one of the most offensive things that I have read in some time. The construction of the analogy is false on two fronts. The first is that this is yet another moment that a small section of text is taken out of context and therefore out of the larger rational argument that is being constructed, which is saying something much different than what is being presented here. The second is on the level of word construction. The terms materiality and reality are being used as synonyms when they clearly aren't. You might want to read the actual text before you engage in this kind of bullshit.
robert wood
> Doug Henwood quoted Judith Butler:
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>> In relation to sex, then, if one concedes the materiality of sex or
>> of the body, does that very conceding operate - performatively - to
>> materialize that sex? And further, how is it that the reiterated
>> concession of that sex - one which need not take place in speech or
>> writing but might be "signaled" in a much more inchoate way -
>> constitutes the sedimentation and production of that material effect?
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> Oh, if only the Holocaust deniers learned to talk like Judith Butler -
> they would have so much more success in the academy!...
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>> In relation to the Holocaust, then, if one concedes the reality of the
>> Holocaust or of the gas chambers, does not that very conceding operate
>> - performatively - to make real that Holocaust? And further, how is it
>> that the reiterated concession of that Holocaust - one which need not
>> take place in speech or writing but might be "signaled" in a much more
>> inchoate way - constitutes the sedimentation and production of that
>> reality effect?
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> They would just have to stop using ALL CAPS and exclamation points!!!!
> and start just writing badly.
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> Seth
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