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Isn’t it funny that the site of difference is inevitably located in the person or practice or identity constructed as other, rather than in the system instituting the difference or, in fact, in the distance between normative and non-normative?
Locating difference
21 Friday Oct 2011
I don’t know that I think it’s funny, so much as a different way of defining “other”. What I mean is, I think it’s more or less a necessary consequence of how “normative” and “non-normative” function.
Now the maths geek in me is wondering whether it’s “necessary and sufficient” – in other words, if there’s an exact equivalence, so that by locating the site of difference, you can immediately identify if it’s a normative/non-normative construction and which way it’s pointing.