Do it to Julia!

The reason Orwell writes in fetters when he writes of Winston and Julia, and at liberty when of Big Brother and the Ministry of Truth, is because he is a right bastard and of O’Brien’s Party without knowing it.

Dominic Fox puts love on the operating table. I have been meaning to link to his fascinating recent series of Sexpol posts and their rather fearless attempt at a fusion of Andrea Dworkin and Alain Badiou, so belatedly: go read, and at some point I intend to have some sort of position worked out on, and a more general response to, the many questions raised here...