Queer Temporalities-Elizabeth Freeman
"Thus gay men, lesbians, and other "perverts" have also served as figures for history, for either civilization's decline or a sublimely futuristic release from nature, or both."
In part: Time's Wounds. I thought the quote, "In this sense, homosexual identity was simply the product of a historical moment in time," is interesting. Earlier in the reading, the author stated that every body is individually a part of nature, and every body is also correlated to the state and a part of history. For example, females and feminism are also blended into a historical timeline. "Thus the monumental or sacred time that Kristeva also describes as "Women's Time" does not escape chronobiopolitical regulation either." When the female group noticed its difficulties in society, a consensus is forming among the group. Therefore, the emotional conflicts between females and society emerge, and feminism eventually elevates to the surface and resistance, consequently relevant to history. For several other LGBTQ groups were also similar, "Thus gay men, lesbians, and other "perverts" have also served as figures for history, for either civilization's decline or a sublimely futuristic release from nature, or both." Whereas the "nature" is not only the literal nature, but also human nature in a sense where one body influences another, and slowly, a group affects a group. Though this part is external information in the reading, I believe it is relevant because the erotic body and sexual aspects in artworks are closely relevant to the human gender. Like the" gaze" we talked about in classes earlier, the sense of substitution is essential for the audience and evokes their specific complex.
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