Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 16:34:18 +0000 (GMT)
From: Matthew King <making-AT-velvet.net>
Subject: Re: soliloquy


On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Kenneth Johnson wrote:

>
> "Cryptonormative?"
>
> haven't herd that afore, sounds cool, sure wud like to work it into a love
> letter someways somehow, like maybe:
>
>  "you cryptonormative doll you"
>
> uh, so coud/wud you thumbnail that'n out a bit further for me Matthew?

As far as I know, Nancy Fraser invented the word in one of her critiques
of Foucault in the early 80s; Habermas picked it up in The Philosophical
Discourse of Modernity. Fraser charges that Foucault's works depend on and
covertly promote values that he is not entitled to on the basis of his
explicit arguments. Thus Foucault's works are normative but not explicitly
so--they're cryptonormative--because if the normativity was explicit,
Foucault would be caught in an apparent contradiction. (Instead, says
Fraser, he is caught in an unapparent contradiction.)

Matthew



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