“This is an attempt to trace the conditions that reproduce the logic of the suffering/savage slot, even as I position my own work within those conditions.”
No one person, not even a fictionalised heroic gay genius, was responsible for “winning” a war whose convoluted political stakes have long been drowned out in public blather about the forces of good and evil.
The center of the carceral state is not, it turns out, the cold, frozen heart of the conservative dominated by an openly racist animus, but the warm, bleeding heart of liberalism, throbbing with feelings of goodness and tolerance.
Watts’ insistence on simply having experienced pleasure while fully clothed does nothing really to advance a more complicated idea of what counts as pleasure in public.
The mother is capable of making her own decisions and if she wants to abort a foetus, yes, a foetus for any reason whatsoever, she’s well within her rights to do so.
