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The Queer Gnostic Cult

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CHAPTER

The Modern Form of Asisis

Halpern: Homosexuality for fuko is a spiritual exercise insofar as it consists in an art or style of life through which individuals transform their modes of existence and ultimately themselves. He says being gay is what is something that the fuko said is a form of asisis just like being nostic it is nosticism here you're not physically pulling out like going and meditating in a cave though you're doing it morally you're adopting moral codes to be gay. Halpern: Fuko saw everything in the social world is carceral as imprisoning as demiurgic power he's motivated by a raw destructive or deconstructive i guess queer nostic belief nosticism

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