Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:38:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Wolf Factory <wolf_factory-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: p.s.RE: White men et al. (love and desire)


Raka,
I must confess, I knew what you were talking about
from the start. I just wanted to have a bit of fun
with the sentence you wrote. <=>
But thanks for the explanation anyway.
Best regards
W.F.

--- Raka Shome <rshome-AT-asu.edu> wrote:
>  p.s.--
> 
> wolf-one last comment. think of the way in which the
> "state" more explicitly
> is currently regulating "non-heterosexual" love and
> desire, ...or how
> "sodomy" is demonized in some states, or if a couple
> is not "married" --i.e.
> the "legitimation" of their "union" by the state, by
> the legal system, they
> cannot be entitled to benefits...., or kids out of
> "wedlock" are still
> frowned upon and cannot be "legislated" into some
> heteropatriarchal
> definition and so on and so forth. 
> 
> so yes, 'love' -desire--and how they are RECOGNIZED,
> LEGITIMATED, AND
> INSTITUTIONALIZED, and how "other" forms of 'desire'
> and love are
> criminalized all have to do with the governmentality
> of desire. 
> Read, if you havae not already, focault's history of
> sexuality
> 
> 
> 
> -----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.
> 
> ====> "All the wolves in the wolf factory paused at noon, 
> for a moment of silence."
> .........from laughing Gravy by John Ashbery.
>
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