SOCI 372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Queer Theory, Lifeworld, Social Forces
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Warner: english professor, founding scholar of queer theory, performance, idioms, styles, emotions - how these are constituted as public/public sphere. 7 key points (postulates: public = self-organised, space of discourse; addressed; organisation text-based. Public is self-organised (constituted through discourse) --> enables those discourses. Time & space: people can pick up text based on time/space, enables reading, interpretation, discussion, independent of formal/pre-existing frameworks" Public = independent of pre-existing frameworks (principles of ordering life: distinct from family, kinship, religion (pre-existing institutions - innate to pre- modern era) Should not operate on pre-given frameworks; if they do, they become powerless - will be dictated by others: embodied creativity & world-making capabilities. Strangers identify public opinion; mediated through text (media: social imaginary; stranger-sociability. People imagining the belonging to a particular public/community: modern social imaginary, once possess imaginary - have sociality among peers, oriented towards strangers, address of public = both personal + impersonal, us + strangers.
