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The Inversion of Pragmatism in Queer Theory
The real mode of signification of who you really are is that nobody knows it's inside you. You aren't who you are isn't actually comprehensible in terms of your body, but it's signified on your body because the social constructions tell you how to present your body and then that signifies it. The effect of a structuring inner space is produced through the signification of a body as a vital and sacred enclosure. It's inscribed socially on the body and then internalized. And what makes it truly spiritual is that it's actually invisible to the body.