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A gift for embracing paradox is not the least of the equipment an activist should have.
Hope in the Dark
Rebecca Solnit
The dialectic between a juridical imperative that cannot be fulfilled and an inevitable failure “before the law” recalls the tortured relationship between the God of the Old Testament and those humiliated servants who offer their obedience without reward. That sexuality now embodies this religious impulse in the form of the demand for love (considered to be an “absolute” demand) that is distinct from both need and desire (a kind of ecstatic transcendence that eclipses sexuality altogether) lends further credibility to the Symbolic as that which operates for human subjects as the inaccessible but all-determining deity. This structure of religious tragedy in Lacanian theory effectively undermines any strategy of cultural politics to configure an alternative imaginary for the play of desires.
Gender Trouble
Judith Butler
Government regulators also have an incentive for ignoring evidence of corporate crime, especially when they are financially dependent on organizations that they are meant to be regulating.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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