Comments on: mystique http://antipopper.com/blog/mystique/ for the unconditional military defence of numerous things Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:28:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jebni http://antipopper.com/blog/mystique/comment-page-1/#comment-1086 jebni Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:13:21 +0000 http://antipopper.com/blog/mystique/#comment-1086 <p>Well sure, but I do think the emphasis here really is on assimilation into a dominant culture -- about being afraid to go to school, as she said to Senator Kelly in between well-placed kicks to the head -- rather than the idea of authentic identity as such. It's about not <em>having</em> to look like them, rather than the celebration of the true self. I think many people sometimes get the shits with pomo critiques of identity politics not because they think those critiques are untrue, but because they can often be invoked in ways that de-emphasise what's at stake -- power. I'm not suggesting that that's what you're doing, just sayin'.</p> <p>Obviously, getting mired in that existing landscape of power and playing the authentic reactive subject is also a form of assimilation. And it's just occurred to me that the union movement, perhaps more than any movements based on racial or sexual "identities", has been particularly prone to this. Really-existing unionism as defensive waged-labour assimilation!</p> Well sure, but I do think the emphasis here really is on assimilation into a dominant culture — about being afraid to go to school, as she said to Senator Kelly in between well-placed kicks to the head — rather than the idea of authentic identity as such. It’s about not having to look like them, rather than the celebration of the true self. I think many people sometimes get the shits with pomo critiques of identity politics not because they think those critiques are untrue, but because they can often be invoked in ways that de-emphasise what’s at stake — power. I’m not suggesting that that’s what you’re doing, just sayin’.

Obviously, getting mired in that existing landscape of power and playing the authentic reactive subject is also a form of assimilation. And it’s just occurred to me that the union movement, perhaps more than any movements based on racial or sexual “identities”, has been particularly prone to this. Really-existing unionism as defensive waged-labour assimilation!

]]> By: mark http://antipopper.com/blog/mystique/comment-page-1/#comment-1085 mark Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:15:12 +0000 http://antipopper.com/blog/mystique/#comment-1085 <p>I dunno, I felt unhappy about that line from X-Men. I mean, it seems to imply that there is a true self beneath our masks, which I think is bullshit. Mystique really ought to be into looking like some weird shit of her own imagining, rather than either the form which God/biology gave to her, or one she stole off someone else.</p> I dunno, I felt unhappy about that line from X-Men. I mean, it seems to imply that there is a true self beneath our masks, which I think is bullshit. Mystique really ought to be into looking like some weird shit of her own imagining, rather than either the form which God/biology gave to her, or one she stole off someone else.

]]> By: liz http://antipopper.com/blog/mystique/comment-page-1/#comment-1084 liz Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:46:48 +0000 http://antipopper.com/blog/mystique/#comment-1084 <p>ben, you're so spot on. yesterday i was so disappointed with all the folks who turned up to the rally wearing aussie flag capes, trading on the 'we just need to show the media "good australians" "happy non-racist white australians on a lefty rally"... gross, spew.</p> <p>the best i could do was sing to starship's old faithful we built this city...</p> <p>"we built this nation (de-ne-de-ne de-neh)/ we built this nation on war and racism/ it's no abberation, (de-ne-de-ne de-neh)/ racism is part of the nation"</p> <p>...I was going for the jester angle, with a painted face and umbrella, shouting a la toulouse lautrec in moulin rouge: "i only speak the truth!" jeremy helped with the big word.</p> <p>one little thing among many. i hope this doesn't read as though i think i've done my bit. promise to pipe up soon with considered thoughts.</p> ben, you’re so spot on. yesterday i was so disappointed with all the folks who turned up to the rally wearing aussie flag capes, trading on the ‘we just need to show the media “good australians” “happy non-racist white australians on a lefty rally”… gross, spew.

the best i could do was sing to starship’s old faithful we built this city…

“we built this nation (de-ne-de-ne de-neh)/ we built this nation on war and racism/ it’s no abberation, (de-ne-de-ne de-neh)/ racism is part of the nation”

…I was going for the jester angle, with a painted face and umbrella, shouting a la toulouse lautrec in moulin rouge: “i only speak the truth!” jeremy helped with the big word.

one little thing among many. i hope this doesn’t read as though i think i’ve done my bit. promise to pipe up soon with considered thoughts.

]]> By: ks http://antipopper.com/blog/mystique/comment-page-1/#comment-1083 ks Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:22:02 +0000 http://antipopper.com/blog/mystique/#comment-1083 <p>lets face it I'm fairly consistently and constantly ashamed to be identified as anglo-australian-whitebread. If there was a trans category for ethnicity I would campaigning for the recognition of it. get me out of this 'whiteness', those punks dont speak for me and yet I am complicit, by the very nature of the beast.</p> lets face it I’m fairly consistently and constantly ashamed to be identified as anglo-australian-whitebread. If there was a trans category for ethnicity I would campaigning for the recognition of it. get me out of this ‘whiteness’, those punks dont speak for me and yet I am complicit, by the very nature of the beast.

]]> By: s0metim3s http://antipopper.com/blog/mystique/comment-page-1/#comment-1082 s0metim3s Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:57:07 +0000 http://antipopper.com/blog/mystique/#comment-1082 <p>Have you noticed that those who pass aren't angry?</p> <p>Anyway, an <a href="http://archive.blogsome.com/2005/06/13/passing-as-european/" rel="nofollow">old post</a>, written just after the fracas over deporting and interning 'Australians'.</p> Have you noticed that those who pass aren’t angry?

Anyway, an old post, written just after the fracas over deporting and interning ‘Australians’.

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