That’s the kind of emancipatory possibility I’m interested in exploring. We free ourselves from what politics would have us desire. Resisting this, a space of possibility opens up. Very often, the reigning ideology tells us, “Be straight”, and we’re not, or it tells us, “Don’t fancy this person because they have a non-normative body”, and yet we find ourselves desiring what we “shouldn’t”. We, as desirous creatures, are much more complex than the reigning ideology would have us believe. But there’s another way of approaching that question, which isn’t about disciplining desire under the sign of good politics it’s about emancipating desire. When we talk about the political critique of desire, a lot of liberals hear a demand that we “discipline” our desire so that it falls in line with our politics. That said, I think it’s important to distinguish two senses in which desire can relate to politics.
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