/lit/ - Literature

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Our relationship to queer theory, the counterculture, californian technoutopianism is analogous to that of the denizens of late socialism to the official marxist leninist ideology. Through the immortal science of american progressivism has certainly become
far more oppressive and suffocating than marxist leninism - hardly room for irony. Like the war on terror is about producing terrorism the war on shame is about producing shame and exploiting it as a means of control. Telling you its a YA novel when its actually gravity's rainbow or naked lunch. We have forgotten how the inscription is always reciprocal, how Representation and identity are always a form of power and control. Critical theory 101: power is the ability to tell you who you are. and how diverging from the norm in any way is more likely to make you a subject of ever more intrusive forms of control. And how perversely the 'marginalized' subject becomes the new justification for coercitive institutional power, and also its scapegoat.