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July 20 2011

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Something Worth Living For

Rather than worry about identity politics, we might concern ourselves now with strategies of containment in US political culture – anti-democratic strategies across the left, right, and center of the political spectrum that mobilize arguments for the reprivatization of the lives and issues of huge segments of the population. There is a broad call for normative, respectable representations of constituencies and issues – including on the left, and in gay politics. These normative, respectable worlds of enforced Unity, Maturity, and Pragmatic Efficiency are nothing like any left or queer movement I ever wishfully imagined. They define either a faux, faintly authoritarian populism or a narrow elitism, founded on cultural conformity and exclusion; they make my nightmares. The time is upon us, not to posit unitary utopias, but to locate resources for a more promiscuously public, cantankerously democratic, libidinously imaginative, prolifically creative, compellingly attractive politics of freedom, equality, and justice. In other words, to find something worth living for.

- Lisa Duggan, “Commentary: Dreaming Democracy,” New Literary History, Vol. 31, No. 4

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April 26 2010

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Le Normal et le Pathologique

Dans sa célèbre étude Le Normal et le Pathologique, Georges Canguilhem rend son importance à la clinique et limite la portée des examens de laboratoire. La médecine n’est pas une science, c’est d’abord une technique. Il met en garde contre la normalisation. Le vivant ne se réduit pas à un simple mécanisme qu’on appréhenderait avec des données quantitatives. Il se définit par sa normativité, c’est-à-dire sa capacité à créer des normes, ce qui le singularise. Le pathologique n’est pas absence de norme, il n’est pas le contraire du normal. Il est plutôt la réduction de la capacité à poser des normes. Être malade, c’est être moins capable de s’adapter à son milieu, c’est réduire son existence à un certain mode de vie… Être en bonne santé au contraire, c’est être en mesure de faire face à l’imprévu, sans avoir besoin de se ménager.

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