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Regulating Aversion
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire | Wendy Brown
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Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents. Dislike, disapproval, and regulation lurk at the heart of tolerance. To tolerate is not to affirm but to conditionally allow what is unwanted or deviant. And, although presented as an alternative to violence, tolerance can play a part in justifying violence--dramatically so in the war in Iraq and the War on Terror. Wielded, especially since 9/11, as a way of distinguishing a civilized West from a barbaric Islam, tolerance is paradoxically underwriting Western imperialism. Brown's analysis of the history and contemporary life of tolerance reveals it in a startlingly unfamiliar guise. Heavy with norms and consolidating the dominance of the powerful, tolerance sustains the abjection of the tolerated and equates the intolerant with the barbaric. Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, Brown traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization.
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Caterina
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My #24B4Monday setup. 😍 I'm at 9 hours and hoping to read a lot today! #readathon @SumisBooks @jb72 @Andrew65

Andrew65 Well done and good luck for today. 👏👏👏 5y
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Caterina
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Evening seminary reading 💕

My seminary transitioned to online classes on Tuesday, and most of the events and plans I had for the next few weeks have been canceled. It's a stressful time here in Berkeley/the Bay Area, and I'm thankful for technology and for online classes. Thinking of y'all and praying for the world right now. Read lots and take care of y'all's selves. ❤️ 🙏

Emilymdxn Thinking of you! Stressful time everywhere right now - central London isn‘t fun tho the official government advice right now is just to wash our hands and not cancel anything. Scary time 😞 sending lots of love 5y
alisiakae We just canceled our trip to San Fran 😢 Not very responsible for us to travel over spring break and possibly risk exposing hubby‘s patients and other healthcare workers upon return. Plus, I think today our school district will be moving up spring break anyway. 5y
Suet624 My son lives in Oakland and works in Berkeley. I‘m so concerned about you all. So far Vermont only has 2 cases but that will surely change. 5y
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witofthestaircase
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“But what if liberalism itself harbours male dominance, what if male superordination is inscribed in liberalism‘s core values of liberty—rooted in autonomy and centred on self-interest—and equality—defines as sameness and confined to the public sphere?“

witofthestaircase “In this critique, masculinist social norms are part of the very architecture of liberalism; they structure its divisions and population of the social space and govern its production and regulation of subjects. These are the norms that produce and privilege masculine public beings.” 6y
WomanistBibliophile Very true. When people wonder how it is that male dominance and white dominance still persist “in 2018” I think this is a large part of it— 6y
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