Thursday 10 September 2015

THIS IS VERY INTENSE

For example:
Queer privilege, born out of the minoritarian theoretical discourses that galvanized the humanities between, oh, 1975 or so and the early 90s, rooted in an immensely popular (mis)reading of Foucault, is grounded in the idea of a link between the normativity of an act and its ethical valence. The argument, sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit, is that because historically the regulatory maintenance of normative social formations has involved the repression and oppression of sexual minorities and non-hetero-reproductive sexual practices, the expression and performance of minoritarian sexual identities and non-reproductive sexual acts has, in itself and a priori, a resistive or subversive value. Queer privilege is the tacit assumption that, confronted with a moral or ethical question, the minoritarian, perverse, and non-normative, in short, the queer, will align on the side of the right and the good against the normative, heterosexual, or mainstream alternative. Queer privilege is the tacit assumption that, regardless of the context or the specific individuals involved, normative is bad and queer is good.
Worth reading the whole thing I think:
http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-hacker-issue/life/on-queer-privilege

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