[lbo-talk] Butler

Eubulides prince.plumples at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 13:30:14 PDT 2008


On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:


>>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



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