simon jones: mixing it: towards the hermaphroditic in performance

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Sex is mixing, from way back when, to god knows where: the Human at deepest reach and furthest throw. So, the species, then the race, then the tribe, then the caste, then the class, then the association, then the individual emerges from the Subhuman on the crest of sex. The subhuman urge to fuck is intransitive: the other is without objecthood, a non-person. All sex expresses this urge to mix where the other has no qualities of personhood, need have no qualities at all, other than otherness. Whereas superhuman sex concerns itself with the most complex levels of discernment and discretion in teasing out and mixing with the attributes and qualities of a particular person. This is the hermaphrodite at play disorganizing not only sex, but all systems, always at the limits of becoming Human, at both at once: as one-off experiment, the what-might-happen, the furthest throw of Superhumanity; and as conserving reproduction, the what-has-happened, the deepest reach of Subhumanity: both together the unique-repeat.





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