So homophobia == the Symbolic, basically (this would account for its ubiquity,
its invisibility, its co-implication in every part of the order of things)...
I see a messianic queer politics being articulated here, one that promises
(like all messianisms) to save us from ourselves. It's very similar (in my
reading) to the messianic gender politics of some of the 70s radical
feminists, which took the division into/between genders as foundational, in
that it set up an entire order of hierarchies maintained through repression,
and lapsarian in that it divided a previously whole and undivided human world
(that must then be healed, made compossible once more).
Not that either is necessarily mistaken, of course; you won't often go
completely wrong linking the thinking behind one kind of oppression with the
thinking behind another, and I have a fondness for the rad/fem stuff that I
don't think many people (including most feminists nowadays) would share. But
I'm dubious about the messianic stuff; like Foucault, with his paradise of
bodies and pleasures sundered and portioned out by the "austere monarchy of
sex" - I believe in the Fall, but not the Eden.
Dominic
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