To what extent do identitarian logical systems always require the construction of socially impossible identities to occupy unnamed, excluded, but presuppositional relation subsequently concealed by the logic itself? --Judith Butler

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. --Theodor W. Adorno

Some questions I am interested in addressing:

• How are certain groups in society marginalized/deprioritized?
• How does Southern culture -- if, in fact, it does -- create "Others" for itself?

Texts:

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison:

• quotes/excerpts of interest (in progress)
• reading notes (in progress)

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity:

• quotes/excerpts of interest (in progress)
• reading notes (in progress)

Preliminary section draft: here.