Sublime

Eroticism is one of the few forms of play permitted to adults. It occurs in a world parallel to the habitual one; it frees us to adopt new personas; it has a tendency to generate enduring communities whose members are "apart together" even when its excesses have come to an end; and, finally, it is dispensable and therefore indispensable.

Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import.

By locating and articulating these spaces of disjunction—of the differences between one’s own experience and the predictable, stereotypical categories of borrowed thought, by operating against the cultural grain—the cultural citizen engages in a kind of autoinvention that challenges existing norms and modalities, generating new and emancipatory