Identity politics is not politics at all, since it precisely negates the political as such by re-construing political positions in ethnic terms, subsuming 'ought' under 'is'.
1/4 The denial of the gap between identity and identification, between, that is to say, the subject of the statement and the subject of enunciation, as crucial for existentialism as it is for Lacanianism, is a presupposition of identity politics.
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Weird fiction has its own consistency, which can be most clearly delineated by comparing it to two adjacent modes, Fantasy and the Uncanny: 1/4 Fantasy (Tolkien is the exemplar here) presupposes a completed World, a world that's superficially different to 'ours' (there may be different species & supernatural forces) but is politically all-too familiar -with some nostalgia for the ordered organization of feudal hierarchy