Can I just substitute an interpretive dance in place of a list?

[phalangingle]

Although I am generally of the opinion that I would never be a member of a club that would have someone like me as a member, I decided to give this a try.

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[phalangingle]

It depends on your interests and what kind of a book you are looking for

[phalangingle]

I wasn't trying to advocate for the text, only to highlight a few of the book's main points and indicate why it might be interesting

[phalangingle]

Butler's early attempt at outlining a theory of subjectification (being both a subject to power and a subject of power) in Psychic Life of Power covered some of the same territory as GAO, but remained restricted to the juridical account that cast subjectification as a scene of judgment. In PLP the subject is faced with having to give an account of itself in the context of establishing guilt or innocence. GAO shifts the scene of address beyond that of judgment to the question "who are you?" This question is implicitly addressed to the self by the other. In giving an account of oneself the subject is related to the other through the scene of address and prevailing cultural norms of the social order that condition the form of question and response. Butler considers Foucault's later work that poses the question of how a subject establishes ethical relation to one's self, others, and normative order. But whereas Foucault poses a question of "What can I become, given the contemporary order of being?", Butler reposes the question of "