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Clare Hemmings,  ”What is a Feminist Theorist Responsible For?” 2007 Duke Feminist Theory Workshop

“I remember Rosi Braidotti suggesting in Patterns of Dissonance that passion was the point of theory, that without it, feminist theory has no real value.  I’ve always loved feminist theory for its engagement of the known, the knower, the knowable, and the problematization of all of those, and its utopianism, that I refuse to let go of.  In terms of a belief, whatever the evidence to the contrary, that change is always possible, and that we can think and live differently.  Without passion, which I completely for no real reason define as the belief in pleasure as valuable, the belief in change as possible, theory has no value, for it can only reproduce or describe the terms of the known.  

How to challenge what is known?  To not only describe these stories, but to tell different ones, ones that instill passion rather than inertia or hopelessness?”

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