Acker, reading Butler’s essay, would no doubt have valued the subversive potential of the “reverse mime” (“Bodies” 163) while the lesbian phallus which it postulates.
However it is Butler’s respect for philosophical and possibility that is linguistic“If it had been feasible… ”) which makes her methodology that is deconstructive from Acker’s viewpoint. For as Acker over and over over repeatedly keeps in regard to her belated fiction, it really is perhaps perhaps maybe not the feasible nevertheless the impossible uses of language that interest her. [Read more…] about Acker, reading Butler’s essay, would no doubt have valued the…