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For me, the book is as much a fetishisation of capitalism as it is a discourse on BDSM.
It is a discourse in which O. J. Simpson is a suitable remedy for Rodney King, and reductions in Medicaid are entertained as a suitable remedy for O. J.
Male and mainstream history does not have a continuous story of resistance, it is a discourse of conflicts and ideologies.
It is a discourse the shows moral frailty and depth of a system that blatantly separates one from another in order to maintain a history not sought by all.
The resurgence of explicitly medieval torture techniques and of fears about medieval diseases -- various forms of uncontainable plagues such as smallpox and anthrax, and yes, even literally the bubonic plague itself -- must be seen in this context; it is a discourse that is utterly impermeable to liberal analysis.
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So firstly, we want to see if it's a discourse of deficit at the moment, or not.
But according to Joanna Williams, an expert in education at the University of Kent, it's a discourse that Anglo-American academics themselves have advanced.
"It's a discourse that plants the idea of 'us and no one else,"' scoffed Tuffi Are, a columnist at El Deber newspaper.
It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.
Obviously this isn't a new stance to take: Karl Marx was bleating on about it in the 19th century and since then it's a discourse that, unsurprisingly, hasn't gone away.
For me, the idea is to change that and I think it's not necessarily feminist, but it's a discourse that discusses being able to sing how I want, do what I want, look however I want, discuss whichever topic I want in my music without thinking "that'll be a hit".
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