{"id":2179,"date":"2009-03-05T23:29:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T04:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2009-08-20T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T19:15:03","slug":"butler-continued-on-sexual-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/03\/05\/butler-continued-on-sexual-d\/","title":{"rendered":"butler continued on sexual d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the claim is made that <strong>sexual difference<\/strong> at this most fundamental level is merely formal (Sheperdson) or empty (\u017di\u017eek), we are in the same quandary as we were in with ostensibly formal concepts such as universality: is it fundamentally formal, or does it <em><strong>become<\/strong><\/em> formal, become available to a formalization <strong>on the condition that certain kinds of exclusions are performed<\/strong> which enable that very formalization in its putatively transcendental mode? (144)<\/p>\n<p>The formal character of this originary, pre-social sexual difference in its ostensible emptiness is <em>accomplished <\/em>precisely through the reification by which a certain idealized and necessary dimorphism takes hold.  The trace or remainder which formalism needs to erase, but which is the sign of its foundation in that which is anterior to itself, often operates as the clue to its unravelling. the fact that claims such as &#8216;cultural intelligibility requires sexual difference&#8217; or &#8216;there is no culture without sexual difference&#8217; circulate within the Lacanian discourse intimates something of the constraining normativity that fuels this transcendental turn, a normativity secured from criticism precisely because it officially announces itself as prior to and untainted by any given social operation of sexual difference (145).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the claim is made that sexual difference at this most fundamental level is merely formal (Sheperdson) or empty (\u017di\u017eek), we are in the same quandary as we were in with ostensibly formal concepts such as universality: is it fundamentally formal, or does it become formal, become available to a formalization on the condition that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/03\/05\/butler-continued-on-sexual-d\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;butler continued on sexual d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,24,94,114,20],"tags":[105,109],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-lacan","category-sexual-difference","category-sexuation","category-zizek","tag-thedebate","tag-whoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3667,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}