C\u2019est dou\u00adlou\u00adreux pour moi d\u2019avoir \u00e9crit tout un livre qui remet en ques\u00adtion les poli\u00adtiques iden\u00adti\u00adtaires pour me d\u00e9cou\u00advrir ins\u00adti\u00adtu\u00e9e comme sym\u00adbole de l\u2019identit\u00e9 les\u00adbienne. Ou bien les gens n\u2019ont pas vrai\u00adment lu le livre, ou la force gra\u00advi\u00adta\u00adtion\u00adnelle des poli\u00adtiques iden\u00adti\u00adtaires est si puis\u00adsante que peu importe ce que tu \u00e9cris, m\u00eame quand c\u2019est expli\u00adci\u00adte\u00adment oppo\u00ads\u00e9 aux poli\u00adtiques iden\u00adti\u00adtaires, la machine le rattrape.<\/em><\/p>\n

Je pense que Butler est g\u00e9n\u00e9\u00adreuse lorsqu\u2019elle d\u00e9signe la dif\u00adfuse \u00ab force gra\u00advi\u00adta\u00adtion\u00adnelle de l\u2019identit\u00e9 \u00bb comme \u00e9tant le pro\u00adbl\u00e8me. De fa\u00e7on moins g\u00e9n\u00e9\u00adreuse, je dirais que le simple fait qu\u2019elle est une les\u00adbienne est si aveu\u00adglant pour cer\u00adtains que peu importent les mots qui sortent de sa bouche \u2013 peu importent les mots qui sortent de la bouche de la les\u00adbienne, peu importent les id\u00e9es qui jaillissent de sa t\u00eate \u2013, cer\u00adtains audi\u00adteurs n\u2019entendent qu\u2019une seule chose : les\u00adbienne, les\u00adbienne, les\u00adbienne<\/em>. Il n\u2019y a qu\u2019un pas de l\u00e0 \u00e0 dis\u00adqua\u00adli\u00adfier la les\u00adbienne \u2013 ou, au fond, \u00e0 dis\u00adqua\u00adli\u00adfier n\u2019importe qui, d\u00e8s lors qu\u2019il refuse de se glis\u00adser sans rechi\u00adgner dans un futur \u00ab post\u00adra\u00adcial \u00bb qui res\u00adsemble beau\u00adcoup trop au pas\u00ads\u00e9 raciste, au pr\u00e9\u00adsent raciste \u2013 comme iden\u00adti\u00adta\u00adriste, quand c\u2019est en fait l\u2019auditeur qui n\u2019arrive pas \u00e0 sur\u00admon\u00adter l\u2019identit\u00e9 qu\u2019il a impu\u00adt\u00e9e au locu\u00adteur. Traiter le locu\u00adteur d\u2019iden\u00adti\u00adta\u00adriste<\/em> devient alors une excuse suf\u00adfi\u00adsante pour ne pas l\u2019\u00e9couter, auquel cas l\u2019auditeur peut reprendre son r\u00f4le de locu\u00adteur. Ne reste qu\u2019\u00e0 d\u00e9cam\u00adper pour aller assis\u00adter \u00e0 une \u00e9ni\u00e8me conf\u00e9\u00adrence d\u2019honneur de Jacques Ranci\u00e8re, d\u2019Alain Badiou, de Slavoj \u017di\u017eek, o\u00f9 l\u2019on pour\u00adra m\u00e9di\u00adter sur Soi et l\u2019Autre, se d\u00e9battre avec la dif\u00adf\u00e9\u00adrence radi\u00adcale, exal\u00adter l\u2019esprit de d\u00e9ci\u00adsion du Deux et cou\u00advrir de honte les iden\u00adti\u00adta\u00adristes sans sophis\u00adti\u00adca\u00adtion, r\u00e9unis que nous serons tous, une fois encore, au pied d\u2019un autre grand homme blanc pon\u00adti\u00adfiant du haut de son podium, comme nous le fai\u00adsons depuis des si\u00e8cles.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s pain\u00adful for me that I wrote a whole book cal\u00adling into ques\u00adtion iden\u00adti\u00adty poli\u00adtics, only then to be consti\u00adtu\u00adted as a token of les\u00adbian iden\u00adti\u00adty. Either people didn\u2019t real\u00adly read the book, or the com\u00admo\u00addi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion of iden\u00adti\u00adty poli\u00adtics is so strong that wha\u00adte\u00adver you write, even when it\u2019s expli\u00adcit\u00adly oppo\u00adsed to that poli\u00adtics, gets taken up by that machi\u00adne\u00adry.<\/em> (Judith Butler)<\/p>\n
I think Butler is gene\u00adrous to name the dif\u00adfuse \u201ccom\u00admo\u00addi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion of iden\u00adti\u00adty\u201d as the pro\u00adblem. Less gene\u00adrous\u00adly, I\u2019d say that the simple fact that she\u2019s a les\u00adbian is so blin\u00adding for some, that wha\u00adte\u00adver words come out of her mouth\u2014whatever words come out of the lesbian\u2019s<\/em> mouth, wha\u00adte\u00adver ideas spout from her head\u2014certain lis\u00adte\u00adners hear only one thing : les\u00adbian, les\u00adbian, les\u00adbian<\/em>. It\u2019s a quick step from there to dis\u00adcoun\u00adting the lesbian\u2014or, for that mat\u00adter, anyone who refuses to slip quiet\u00adly into a \u201cpost\u00adra\u00adcial\u201d future that resembles all too clo\u00adse\u00adly the racist past and present\u2014as iden\u00adti\u00adta\u00adrian<\/em>, when it\u2019s actual\u00adly the lis\u00adte\u00adner who can\u00adnot get beyond the iden\u00adti\u00adty that he has impu\u00adted to the spea\u00adker. Calling the spea\u00adker iden\u00adti\u00adta\u00adrian<\/em> then serves as an effi\u00adcient excuse not to lis\u00adten to her, in which case the lis\u00adte\u00adner can resume his role as spea\u00adker. And then we can scam\u00adper off to yet ano\u00adther confe\u00adrence with a key\u00adnote by Jacques Ranci\u00e8re, Alain Badiou, Slavoj \u017di\u017eek, at which we can medi\u00adtate on Self and Other, grapple with radi\u00adcal dif\u00adfe\u00adrence, exalt the deci\u00adsi\u00adve\u00adness of the Two, and shame the unso\u00adphis\u00adti\u00adca\u00adted iden\u00adti\u00adta\u00adrians, all at the feet of yet ano\u00adther great white man pon\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adting from the podium, just as we\u2019ve done for centuries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
C\u2019est dou\u00adlou\u00adreux pour moi d\u2019avoir \u00e9crit tout un livre qui remet en ques\u00adtion les poli\u00adtiques iden\u00adti\u00adtaires pour me d\u00e9cou\u00advrir ins\u00adti\u00adtu\u00e9e comme sym\u00adbole de l\u2019identit\u00e9 les\u00adbienne. Ou bien les gens n\u2019ont pas vrai\u00adment lu le livre, ou la force gra\u00advi\u00adta\u00adtion\u00adnelle des poli\u00adtiques iden\u00adti\u00adtaires est si puis\u00adsante que peu importe ce que tu \u00e9cris, m\u00eame quand c\u2019est [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[466,53],"class_list":["post-20269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-non-classe","tag-genre","tag-identite","post_format-post-format-quote"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21851,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269\/revisions\/21851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}