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...insofar as an American thinks that the sex he or she is having is an intimate, private thing constructed within a space governed by personal consent, she or he is having straight sex, straight sex authorized by national culture; she or he is practicing national heterosexuality...
Lauren Berlant Quotes: ...insofar as an American thinks
When we talk about an object of desire, we are really talking about a cluster of promises we want someone or something to make to us and make possible for us.
Lauren Berlant Quotes: When we talk about an
Heterosexuality is not a thing.
Lauren Berlant Quotes: Heterosexuality is not a thing.
I found, when circulating chapters from this book, that some readers feel I am too hard on heterosexuality. I do not mean to be coming out against it. I simply do not see why the nation has to have an official sexuality, especially one that authorizes the norm of a violent gentility; that narrows the field of legitimate political action; that supports the amputation of personal complexity into categories of simple identity; that uses cruel and mundane strategies both to promote shame for non-normative populations and to deny them state, federal, and juridical supports because they are deemed morally incompetent to their own citizenship. This is the heterosexuality I repudiate.
Lauren Berlant Quotes: I found, when circulating chapters
Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it is something you already own that you can express: my masculinity, my queerness . But identity need not be simply a caption for an image of an unchangeable concrete self. It is also a theory of the future, of history.
Lauren Berlant Quotes: Identity is marketed in national
[The U.S. worker] gets to appear at his least national when he is working and at his most national at leisure, with his family or in semipublic worlds of other men producing surplus manliness (e.g. via sports).
Lauren Berlant Quotes: [The U.S. worker] gets to
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