File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2000/postcolonial.0007, message 137


Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:38:40 -0700
From: Raka Shome <rshome-AT-asu.edu>
Subject: FW: White men et al. (love and desire)


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Raka Shome
To: 'Wolf Factory '
Sent: 7/16/00 6:36 PM
Subject: RE: White men et al. (love and desire)

 
I guess i am using the term state in the way in which we use it in
cultural studies...for eg. like foucault's notion of
"governmentality"...so state, here means the enactment of state power,
governmentality, in the culture of the everyday.  if one is not familiar
with this vocabulary--rather common in cultural studies-, it is
difficult to explain in a few words. 

reading scholars like berlant--who in my view offers one of most
significant insights into the regulation of desire, intimacy etc by
state power, judith butler, or even toby miller recent book (can't
remember) the name that discusses governmentality or anything in the
wide literature in 
queer studies etc..will illustrate this. 

when you refer to MP's, "Bill" etc i think you are adopting what
foucault would say,  a "juridical" top down view of power...and again,
locating it at the level of intentions and individual people.

best, i can do in such a short space. good luck. raka 
-----Original Message-----
From: Wolf Factory
To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Sent: 7/16/00 3:48 AM
Subject: RE: White men et al. (love and desire)

Raka,
Perhaps I have missed the train and all that was on it
but I fail to understand what you meant by the
following sentence:
 >since the terms of "love" and "desire"
> are already written and
> regulated by the state. 

Are you referring to a particular state? Did the MPs
or Senators of that state vote on how love and desire
ought to be defined and regulated? Was the issue
presented as a Bill? Was it discussed through the
night? Were any of the points raised illustrated
physically? Did the MPs compose lengthy love sonnets
to each other? Were any babies born as a result of the
debate?

Just Curious
Love and Desire
Wolf Factory.

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for a moment of silence."
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