The "minoritizing logic of domination"
 

Warner 167-8: "Publicness is always able to encode itself through the themes of universality, openness, meritocracy, and access, all of which derhetoricize its self-understanding, guaranteeing at every step that difference will be enunciated as mere positivity, an ineluctable limit imposed by the particularities of the body, a positivity that cannot translate of neutralize itself prosthetically without ceasing to exist. This minoritzing logic, intrinsic to the deployment of negativity in the bourgeois public sphere, presents the subjects of bodily difference with the paradox of a utopian promise that cannot be cashed in for them. The very mechanism designed to end domination is a form of domination"
 
[see "abstracting oneself in public"]

> from Michael Warner's Publics and Counterpublics (2005)

> tagged with #other, #control

> created August 24, 2026 at 10:17:00 AM


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