Phew I'm catching up on the critique/postcritique stuff. Tempest teapot etc. But I guess here's what I have to say to the delightful promise of unproblematized white pleasure. Your pleasures are a form of terrorism for everybody else in the world.
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and dare I quote myself: "White sovereign entrepreneurial terror sounds and feels like relief and entertainment to a white population whose very sense of selfhood and power has been seemingly threatened by the work of progressiv- ism and civil government....
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....; thus, it is an aesthetic and affective genre that reasserts itself in such a way that feels like fun for whiteness but codes as terror for everyone else." https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/35/4/53/133563/You-Make-Me-Feel-Right-Quare-Promiscuous-Reading …
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To put it another way: I'm not sure postcritique exists. Honestly some of it sounds just like how people describe taking MDMA. Personally I like my vigilance; for the most part it has served me well.
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Thank you for this thread, and especially for the reminder that we must say "yes" to the text. I return to Spivak's interview with Ellen Rooney (somehow absent in many discussions of reading) that deconstruction is not about others' error but what I can't live without.
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That is so gorgeously true. I mean look. People experience critique as a loss because in fact yes, they are being asked to give things up. That's correct. It's a loss of resources for spoiled comfortable people gliding by on so much less than the rest of us are asked to give.
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