On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 08:26 +1000, Alison Croggon wrote:
> I guess performance lends itself to this, because it is already
> literally a playing of a role in relation to an audience, which
> permits the explosion of expectations. Poetry per se is more
> problematic in its relation to an audience/reader
I am curious if this idea helps or is useful... Eve Sedwick takes up
Austin's how to do things with words and the traditional marriage
ceremony where the groom says; I do. This I do actually performs or acts
the words. This exchange of women is actually done with the two words
(it seals the bargain)
>From this Sedwick was able to get to an analysis of homophobia as being
structured in the universalising way by this exchange. Hence, homosocial
friendships between men are cemented also by this exchange.
It is also interesting that queer still attacheds itself to a militant
lesbian and gay liberation agenda. (The idea that we are all just n
sexes categories as queer returns to Aristotle, and this was the problem
Butler found herself in and had to get out of asap.)
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I have chronic fatigue syndrome so I may be delayed in my reply. Just to
let you know, that's all. Chris Jones.
Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
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