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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Heteronormative vs. Debtornormative

I've never been big on queer theory's academicized politics -- I think Anglo-American queer theory is a misreading of Foucault and a false overcoming of materialism. So here is the thing -- what is much more oppressive/mystifying is the discourse of debtor-normativity in the economics of today's world.

Especially for the middle class kid who comes out of higher ed with a B.A. bearing an average of $30,000 in student loans, whose interest rates have been going up to the advantage of the loan holders such as Citibank and company. Debtornormative discourse keeps telling us though how bad it is to be in debt, even as every kind of pressure is exerted to spend beyond our means, now that the onus of everything from medical care and higher ed is supposed to be born by the rugged individual consumer.

Let's see an analysis of debtornormativity in academia. I've put out the call before!

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