>>Although at this moment I want to offer an absolute
>>reassurance to my interlocutor, some anxiety prevails. To "concede"
>>the undeniability of "sex" or its "materiality" is always to concede
>>some version of "sex," some formation of "materiality." Is the
>>discourse in and through which that concession occurs-and, yes, that
>>concession invariably does occur-not itself formative of the very
>>phenomenon that it concedes?
>
> If only her interlocutors were as respectful to Butler as she is to them.
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The fantasy of finality/supremacy/academic one upmanship, along with the "wiil-to" decontextualization and misrepresentation, dies hard. Realism as security blanket and all that.........
Ian