[-empyre-] response to Christiane

[Marc Leger]

hi all,
sorry for the repetition of my text - some problems with the server resulted
in mine and Christina's efforts to fix the problem leading to repetition.

i would like to first respond to Christiane and hopefully I'm not confusing
people's comments here

first, from my perspective, one cannot simply map on heteronormativity to
biopower - of course you can do things with words but from a political
viewpoint it relies on taking Hegelian dialectics (or is it Agamben's use of
Foucault in Homo Sacer) and suggesting that the concrete universal is
heterosexuality - as I stated in my text, from a psychoanalytic perspective,
this just doesn't work - it's the flip side of the equally problematic
utopia of polymorphous perversity

in this sense, I also disagree with the idea that we could divide
institutional critique into "two camps" (again, mapping straight/gay onto
the idea of class struggle, if I understand this assertion correctly): one
that derives from the queer initiatives of the exhibition at American Fine
Arts and an earlier stage based on Asher, Buren, Haacke, Willats.  as well,
what do you do with people like Louise Lawler, Andrea Fraser and Sylvia
Kolbowski? this to me is an especially significant problem in the
historiography of the shift from Abstract Expressionism to Neo Dada and Pop
Art.

lastly, I would say that I'm not in any way interested in "queer art
practices" in the same way that, as a theorist (rather than as a critic
working in a manner before the death of the author), I am not interested in
aesthetic models (dialogical aesthetic, relational aesthetics, etc) but in
the avant-garde critique of aesthetics.  Bourdieu, who insists in his own
way on the shift from desire to drive, is an important reference for me.
 again, from my perspective, you can't map queer on top of avant-garde and
use the same Hegelian Marxist underpinnings.  in some ways Judith Butler's
work has been the best effort at this though of course it begins - in Gender
Trouble - with a rich mix of sources in feminist theory and psychoanalysis.

marc
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