The category animal is not simply a corral of the things on the other side of the Man/Animal divide, it is not a name that applies there and not here (but this does not mean the animal-in-man sense that is precisely the OPPOSITE of this sense, none of the hack literary posturing and poetic noodling gesturing like gags at a secret obscure otherness in this, no appealing to the "mysteries" of that fabulous thrusting thick gunted Lady fucking Nature, mysteries only possible to touch through divinations of precious Novelists and other serene-portrait-photograph'd species of New Yorker column writers that are our Mediums of the day)

Animal is a name that is applied to a given species, at a given moment of enunciation, and while it does not NOT function as a name or as a corral of the plenitude of all other non-Homo sapiens life as this is clearly its most common and proprietary function, it doesn't exactly just do that either. All humans are at risk of becoming an animal during the war of discourse. This act has simply gone by other names in the past: Communist, Jew, Heretic/Infidel; now it is called Homo sacer. The goal of militarist/authoritarian/fundamentalist politics is precisely determining the target of this name, after which several well-established and well known political technologies fall into place and begin to operate.


Acephale, Sade, "evil," Bataille, banality - the secret way of tricking the left into finding fascism sexy is called BDSM, an obscurantist sexual gesture towards fascism if there ever was one, something I think Pasolini did, but "Pauline Reage" did not get; Alsdair Grey did, but Richared Kern has not. Couldn't the same arguments about sub/dom relationships be applied to actual slaves? If so, the claims people make about these things are unforgivable to the extreme, obscene in a way they cannot at all claim intentionally, and at the same time completely ridiculous and laughable - if not, they are like children play-acting a game whose only product is a sort of repulsive naive erudition and cowardly hypocrisy in the face of their own arguments and proclimations