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>>The rise of autonomously performative representation in economics, technology, linguistics, philosophy, sexuality, entertainment, and throughout everyday life deconstructed the ancient binary opposition between phusis and nomos. To the extent that the eidola of senseperception blocked the access of nous to logos, personal identity was nolonger experienced as a natural condition, inherited at birth and sustainedthroughout life.
>> Identity came rather to seem cultural, customary, a matter to be defined by appearance rather than by essence, something that one performed rather than something that one was. As this understanding of character took root in the popular mind, the concept of a political spectrum based on objective social class began to recede. In its place grew up an ‘identity politics,’ whose most basic assumption was that subjectivity is artificially ‘constructed’ by external, symbolic forces such as linguistic representation, visual signs, and financial status.
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>>The rise of autonomously performative representation in economics, technology, linguistics, philosophy, sexuality, entertainment, and throughout everyday life deconstructed the ancient binary opposition between phusis and nomos. To the extent that the eidola of senseperception blocked the access of nous to logos, personal identity was nolonger experienced as a natural condition, inherited at birth and sustainedthroughout life.
>> Identity came rather to seem cultural, customary, a matter to be defined by appearance rather than by essence, something that one performed rather than something that one was. As this understanding of character took root in the popular mind, the concept of a political spectrum based on objective social class began to recede. In its place grew up an ‘identity politics,’ whose most basic assumption was that subjectivity is artificially ‘constructed’ by external, symbolic forces such as linguistic representation, visual signs, and financial status.
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