Dispossession Part 2

In this section of Dispossession Butler and Athanasiou discuss the perils of working for liberation within the confines what what is restrictive in the first place. They discuss the ways in which engaging in the performative is a form of resistance to the systems that reject the existence of performativity in society. This reminds me of Katherine MacKinnon's ideas about dominance and oppression specifically in regard to female sexuality. It reminds me of MacKinnon because MacKinnon points out that a lot of what we would now call "sex positive" feminism embraces the system of oppression, patriarchal oppression, that creates it in the first place. Is this aim at liberation through and within the systems that create oppression in the first place a valid mode of resistance or is there something more radical that can be engaging to feminist and queer discourses? I think this also relates to what Lynette was talking about in class the other day about rejecting subjectivity in the first place and not relying on notions of subjectivity to constitute the idea of the "self" and furthermore realities of relationality.