Exploding | 19 January 2009

In one of my classes this term, we’re reading Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Judith Butler in the first two weeks. My brain is exploding. Here are some bits from Sedgwick’s “Axiomatic” that I actually understood (actually offered, helpfully, as bullet points in the text):

• Sexuality makes up a large share of the self-perceived identity of some people, a small share of others’.
• Some people spend a lot of time thinking about sex, others little.
• Many people have their richest mental or emotional involvement with sexual acts they don’t do, or even don’t want to do.
• For some people, it is important that sex be embedded in contexts resonant with meaning, narrative, and connectedness with other aspects of their life; for other people, it is important that they not be; to others it doesn’t occur that they might be.
• For some people, the possibility of bad sex is aversive enough that their lives are strongly marked by its avoidance; for others, it isn’t.
• Some people like spontaneous sexual scenes, others like highly scripted ones, others like spontaneous-sounding ones that are nonetheless totally predictable.

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