PHIL 237 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Maggie Nelson, Gai Pied, Heteronormativity
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Foucault - ethics, subjectivity & truth: friendship as a way of life. Le gai pied is a french magazine name translates to the gay foot. Gay foot refers to hornets nest or the symbolic pitfall associated with the magazine"s agenda of disregarding and undermining of the status quo. Ascesis: the work that one performs on oneself in order to transform oneself or make the self appear which, happily, one never attains (137) Can problem today be lack of ascecism in society? (foucault ponders) A way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be gay", i think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try to define and develop a way of life (138) Sexual liberation movements counter themselves by identifying homosexuality in parallel terms to that of heterosexuality (consistent with heteronormative) (138) Contrary to the efforts of the sexual liberation movement"s efforts in the 60"s.
