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