Levine 25: "For Irigaray and many others [see separate note on 'phallomorphism'], the trouble with form is precisely its embrace of unified wholeness: its willingness to impose boundaries, to imprison, to create inclusions and exclusions. The valuing of aesthetic unity implies a broader desire to regulate and control—to dominate the plurality and heterogeneity of experience"
"Theorists who are concerned about the political implications of unity and totality tend to be antiformalists: that is, they resist the containing power of form. But in the process they maintain the traditional formalist premise that forms totalize and unify."
see Derrida on the scapegoat, or Judith Butler on queerness as an "an abjected category" relegated to a "constitutive outside"
these critics, while important, "have not stopped to ask whether [wholes] might lay claim to other, more progressive affordances as well."