At 01:03 PM 6/6/2008, Angelus Novus wrote:
>Miles Jackson:
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> > Well, I agree that the notion of performativity
>helps
> > us to understand sexual identity; does Butler really
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> > disagree with that? I've read most of her stuff,
>and > I don't remember her making the claim AN
>attributes
> > above.
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>"We cannot simply throw off the identities we have
>become, and Foucault's call to 'refuse' these
>identities will certainly be met with resistance."
>[...]
>"Called by an injurious name, I come into social
>being, and because I have a certain inevitable
>attachment to my existence, because a certain
>narcissism takes hold of any term that confers
>existence, I am led to embrace the terms that injure
>me because they constitute me socially. The
>self-colonizing trajectory of certain forms of
>identity politics are symptomatic of this paradoxical
>embrace of the injurious term. As a further paradox,
>then, only by occupying - being occupied by - that
>injurious term can I resist and oppose it, recasting
>the power that constitutes me as the power I oppose."
>
>- _The Psychic Life of Power_, pages 102 and 104
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