Abstract
In this article, we attempt a radical critique of the #MeToo movement. We do not aim to display #MeToo phenomenon as a molarity anchored to the nobility of its supposed historical origin. Rather we showcase it as a nomadological flow. This is a flow that, on the one hand, resonates with and folds the productive intensities of its supposed historical origin. But, on the other hand, it turns into a dangerous mad line of flight with a potential to stultify the relational dynamics of genders. Secondly, we will argue that what lies behind the metamorphosis of ‘Me Too’ activism into a dangerous line of flight, inclined to devilishly restructure the socius, is its precarious connection with the elusive media images. Thirdly we shall show how as a dangerous line of flight #MeToo activism ends up becoming an ally of neo-liberal carceral feminism and governmental schemes of incarceration and surveillance. And finally, we will focus on explaining the positionality of #MeToo in the light of schizo-aesthetics of body and desire.
Highlights
In this article, we attempt a radical critique of the #MeToo movement
A radical Schizoanalysis of this view may expose it as bearing proximal concomitance with populist thinking rather than being transgressively creative, inclined towards subverting the ‘normative’ or generating the new. i the question is what structural aspect of populist thinking such views represent? It may be argued that when such views are rendered spatially they betray a kind of analogy with what is viewed as the triangulation of a dialectical field. ii At one end of this field lies affectual antagonism in the form of tumult while the other end stands pregnant with glimpses of hope and desire for a reconstructive change
It is not because such views are generative of a dialectical field, indicative of a rigid abstract schizophrenic oscillation between affects— otherwise sensed or experientially encountered as existing in a state of dense intertwinement—that one needs to think beyond it. This is because #MeToo for many attempting to delink it from the trajectory of populist thinking may generate little of what we view as the reconcilable dialectics of tumult and hope, even less of what a beginner in postcolonial studies may put down as a kind of fertile ‘in-between’. iii Rather it could lead one into the speculative territoriality of dystopia awaiting round the corner to be grounded, given that in the self-referential circularity or rotundity of the ‘globed’ condition in which we live there are only actualisables or tangibles
Summary
We attempt a radical critique of the #MeToo movement. We do not aim to display #MeToo phenomenon as a molarity anchored to the nobility of its supposed historical origin. It may be argued that what prompts #MeToo activists to treat social media as an ally of the dialectical resistance that they offer to the regular sexual exploitation of women by males is, to put it reductively, the Hollywoodish poetic justice it delivers at the end.
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