WGS160Y1 Lecture : WGS272 Lecture #5
10 Feb 2012
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For butler, identity categories tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes, even if they are rallying points for libratory regimes. We recall from foucault, power always requires its other. For butler, pleasure is produced from the instability of the categories. Identity categories try to control the very eroticism they try to claim, describe and authorize! They inadvertently normalize! (they tell you how to be) What becomes known when i come out as lesbian, asks butler. We as humans tend to love binaries, if there is heterosexuals there must be homosexuals. We have to be continually be open to criticism. To claim is to totalize i it is to say that i know who i am. But todo os, it must exclude and manage what is in excess of what defines i . When you come out as a lesbian, you disclose the full content of i . But what, if anything, do lesbians share, asks butler.
