Michel Foucault in Foucault Anonymat, by Erik Bordeleau
Bordeleau goes on to note:
Dans ce passage, la conception de l’expérience comme désubjectivation préfigure une certaine idée du commun et de sa production. La possibilité de poursuivre, de croiser et de retraverser l’expérience d’autrui ne va jamais de soi. Elle constitue un des enjeux-clés de la resistance au gouvernement pas individualisation.
This is so extremely relevant to me right now. I don’t feel confident enough to do the text justice in translation. If you can read French, I hope that you can recognize it’s beauty and significance in terms of questioning the limits of identity-based conceptions of the self and perhaps ways of moving through difference in a way that doesn’t always lead back to the same dead end (in which, we enforce individualist, separatist, and ultimately, essentialist categories of being that leave little room for an experience of common being).
“see you can tell zizek hasn’t been fisted or thought much about it at all - fisting is not aboutpenetration, nor is it to do with the superfice - it’s to do with occupation of a space, with becoming joined, with swallowing not piercing… not to mention there’s nothing to penetrate, the anus being a hole that has never represented absence - to the contrary often over-flowing fullness but in bodily terms the muscle is the only thing to be penetrated and yet it opens up to the fist, providing more space, schlurping around… to pierce the flesh with a sword or a bullet is to damage and destory, to make a hole where none was before; whereas fisting, if done properly, is to make a whole where there was just hole before.”
-http://www.metafilter.com/108648/High-Five#3988292
OCCUPY MY HOLE.
(Source: princeofprance)