[lbo-talk] Butler

[Dennis Perrin]

> What the body is, is constructed within dense complex social networks,
> regulatory norms, etc.  Meaning is constructed in those networks and
> intelligibility and unintelligibility as well.  Social construction is not
> 'false' or 'inessential' or even volunteeristic, but at the same time,
> there is no meaning to a body that is outside of those meaning networks,
> that transcends them.

Tell me about it! Not a day goes by without someone I know running up to me 
and saying, "Social construction is not
'false' or 'inessential' or even volunteeristic," between long breaths, and 
not a few tears as well. I think most of us are feeling this way these days.

Dennis