Like it or not, there is no escaping identity politics. With every effort to identify oneself as an individual, one is associated with a larger group. This collection explores how identity politics works, how it rears its ugly headb and which efforts are taken to defy and discuss it. The attempt to escape the Spectacle is a Spectacle in itself.
“Now part of what”…“I see as the problem is the idea of anybody’s having to fight the fragmentation and multicultural diversity of the world, not to mention outright oppression, by constructing something so rigid as an identity, an identity in which there has to be a fixed and immobile core, a core that is structured to hold inviolate such a complete biological fantasy as race— whether white or black” —Samuel R. Delany, interviewed by Mark Dery, 1994
