{"id":442,"date":"2008-11-03T19:04:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2008-11-10T02:40:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T00:40:20","slug":"the-presupposition-of-intent-performativity-and-self-catholicism-and-spanking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/the-presupposition-of-intent-performativity-and-self-catholicism-and-spanking\/","title":{"rendered":"The presupposition of intent. Performativity and self: Catholicism and spanking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I found a note that I&#8217;d written after a long discussion a group of us had a week or so ago. I leave it here for posterity to analyse and sit in judgement over:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/vatten.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"vatten\" width=\"640\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-445\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, whereas <em>A<\/em> and <em>B<\/em> are into it [spanking] because they&#8217;re fascinated by the play on power (who dominates whom and so on), me and <em>C<\/em> are more interested in the manifestations of power itself; Who <em>actually<\/em> beats whom, who <em>really<\/em> decides over whom, etc. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/rumpa_smisk.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rumpa_smisk\" width=\"640\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-444\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Where <em>B<\/em>s game is about being the one in control or being the one subjected to domination, I am more interested in the nature of control and power itself \u2014 how does it feel to be beaten or to beat someone else, and ultimately (although it&#8217;s an extreme example) to see if there is a qualitative differance between killing someone and not having done it (not restrain oneself, mind you), and if that differance is noticeable enough to qualify a judgement call and <em>not<\/em> do it. In other words, where is the limit of what you can stand to do, and stand having done to you; not socially (i.e. how far am I willing to part with my civil \u2014 or representable \u2014 self) but rather existentially.<\/p>\n<p><em>What person will I be if I quit now, and how much further can I take this before I don&#8217;t recognize myself?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/drake_i_trad.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"drake_i_trad\" width=\"640\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-453\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a note that I&#8217;d written after a long discussion a group of us had a week or so ago. I leave it here for posterity to analyse and sit in judgement over: So, whereas A and B are into it [spanking] because they&#8217;re fascinated by the play on power (who dominates whom and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/the-presupposition-of-intent-performativity-and-self-catholicism-and-spanking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The presupposition of intent. Performativity and self: Catholicism and spanking!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[428,427,429,430],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-friends","tag-catolicism","tag-pain","tag-spanking","tag-too-much-absinthe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}