Corrine- Week 9 Questions

Hi everyone! I apologize for my late post; coming back from spring break has been almost more jarring than ever, and it completely slipped my mind last night...

I have been thinking through a lot of the work Hall does in "Who Needs Identity?" He wraps up his essay with the following: "...the question, and the theorization, of identity is a matter of considerable political significance, and is only likely to be advanced when both the necessity and the 'impossibility' of identities, and the suturing of the psychic and the discursive in their constitution, are fully and unambiguously acknowledged" (16). I am struggling to understand what exactly this means for us: how can we "fully and unambiguously acknowledge" this suturing of the psychic and discursive? How does the notion of "difference" or "lack" play a role in this suturing and subsequent acknowledgement?

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My two questions from this week have emerged from the Judith Butler piece, A 'Bad Writer' Bites Back , both centered around the journal, Philosophy and Literature —which Butler describes as the self-proclaimed “arbiter of good prose.” I agree with Butler’s staunch defense of questioning common sense and provoking “new ways of looking at a familiar world”, and was reminded of David Harvey’s quote in the introduction to his Companion to Marx’s Capital : “Real learning always entails a struggle to understand the unknown.” Butler describes Philosophy and Literature as a “culturally conservative academic journal” which naturally led me down a longer-than-anticipated visit to the journal's website . I was greeted with a video presented by the Philosophy and Literature’s editor Garry L. Hagberg, who rails against the “jargon infested” work that litters the journal’s field, locating Philosophy and Literature in clear opposition to such bothersome clutter. However, Hagberg...

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