Actual Academic Jargon

Because the sonnets continually return to earlier topics and images, undo the precarious stabilities of ostensibly conclusive couplets, regress to emotions which cannot be assuaged and constantly need to be rewritten, they enact a kind of Mobius strip "chicken and egg simultaneity."

Joe Fineman's influential gender-bifurcated reading of the sonnets enlarges this insight through a Lacanian filter that sutures gender and sexuality to signification

To the extent that resistance to a literalizing hermeneutic corresponds to the construal of homoeroticism as a matter of social identity rather than particular erotic behaviors, insofar as it posits "love" as the sine qua non for social acceptance, it bears more than a passing resemblance to the limited political basis, at least within the United States, upon which it is now possible to advocate gay marriage."

If one accepts (both for example and for the sake of argument) that the Confessions supplies no positive "female subject position" yet seems everywhere to assume a "male sexuality," does the text not nonetheless (even thereby) seduce our readerly "femininity," emergent at that queer site where deep resistance meet deep responsiveness in a bursting-forth of joy that (momentarily) both reverses and undoes the binary between text and reader, masculinity and femininity, activity and passivity?

...issues of desire and pleasure constitute an object of thought in the quest for a personal ethics. This technology of the self generates an aesthetics of existence or an art of living in which the exemplary individual, who is quintessentially male, must be master of himself and others.

Some invoke Hayden White's study of the rhetorical modalities of historiography to note the inter-contamination of historical and fictional discourses and thus to read the documents of the conquest/encounter for the way they narrate not only events, but also desire.

Spectrality counters the teleological drive of hetereproductive futurity on the level of form, and proposes an alternative mode of non-linear temporality that queries the melancholic attachments of some counternarratives of queer, on the one hand, and the illusion of choice between “life” and “death” on the other.

Insofar as queer historicism registers the affective investments of the present in the past, however, it harbors within itself not only pleasure, but also pain, a traumatic pain whose ethical insistence is to live to tell through complex and circuitous processes of working through.

This foreclosing of the necessity of the difficult task of counterhegemonic ideological production has not been salutary. It has helped positivist empiricism - the justifying foundation of advanced capitalist neocolonialism - to define its own arena as concrete experience.

Multiplicities are rhizomatic, and expose arborescent pseudomultiplicities for what they are.

The latter would understand the 'mark" of gender to be part of the hegemonic signifying economy of the masculine that operates through the self-elaborating mechanisms of specularization that have virtually determined the field of ontology within the Western philosophical tradition.

The performative invocation of a nonhistorical "before" bcomes the foundational premise that guarantees a presocial ontology of persons who freely consent to be governed and thereby constitute the legitimacy of the social contract.

the Althusserian conception of structure has often seemed to its adversaries to constitute a renewed defense of the reified specialization of the bourgeois academic disciplines.

the differential accessibility or knowability of character is only one feature inviting cathexis with ontological difference.

the polomical emphasis on heroism leads, of necessity, to an excess of purely lyrical lyricism

any resurrection of the Greek world is a more or less conscious hypostasy of aesthetics into metaphysics

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