COMP 421 Lecture 5: COMS 491 Week 5

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Homos
should homosexuality be good/normative behavior?
Immoralist - pederasty
narcissistic expression
rejects ownership, loss of property relations
Funeral Rites - homosexual betrayal
New erotics (128) - Gide
Not really about pederasty
Intimacy without relations
Removing sex from sexuality
Eroticism that is not bound up in other relations
What does he see in these boys? Himself
(122-123) create an ethics that is not grounded on difference
Trying to get rid of the self
The moment an identity is positioned, there is an outside
Identity is the foundation of all violence
Colonizing impulses could be a precondition for a potentially revolutionary
eroticism
It doesn’t matter that they are different, he loves them because he sees himself in
him
Homoness becomes a synonym of sameness
How is this different from color blindness?
Calls for us to not be capable of recognizing difference
Bersanis project is more of an ethics than pretending that race doesnt exist
Self-annihilation and narcissism
Movement is from ego-annihilation to ego-dissemination
Self is not abolished but it is dispersed - we see it everywhere
Getting rid of attachment to preserving the boundaries of the ego
(124-125)
Works against the secure ego
Impersonal sameness
Other model is cruising
Genet - (167)
Scene on the rooftop when they are fucking and facing the world (165/6)
Point about position - facing the same way, sameness
Normal model of intimacy - facing each other creates a closed circle
(172) rejection of relationality
Without the rejection, the social conditions will never change
Intimacies
Ego tries to hyperbolize itself and can only be dealt with by acts of mass aggression
Not subversive, this is how violence works in general for him
Love and impersonality in Phaedrus
(84/5) impersonal narcissism - not individualistic
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Eroticism that is not bound up in other relations. (122-123) create an ethics that is not grounded on difference. Trying to get rid of the self. The moment an identity is positioned, there is an outside. Identity is the foundation of all violence. Colonizing impulses could be a precondition for a potentially revolutionary eroticism. It doesn"t matter that they are different, he loves them because he sees himself in him. Calls for us to not be capable of recognizing difference. Bersani"s project is more of an ethics than pretending that race doesn"t exist. Self is not abolished but it is dispersed - we see it everywhere. Getting rid of attachment to preserving the boundaries of the ego. Scene on the rooftop when they are fucking and facing the world (165/6) Point about position - facing the same way, sameness. Normal model of intimacy - facing each other creates a closed circle. Without the rejection, the social conditions will never change.

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