Mutual Entanglements

"When people write about class, or poverty, they are writing about race, but how? When people write about gender, they are writing about race, and class, but how? When people write about sexuality, they are writing about gender, and race, and class, but how? 

I simply don’t think there is a thematic question here. There is a question about thinking mutual entanglements of problems, and thinking them outside the sets of limits offered as non-limits by the current dispensation, whether it be within or without the academy, within or without poetry communities."

I think this letter by Joshua Clover (in response to this discussion of race by Rankine/Hoagland) helps make some sense of what I was trying to get at on Monday in my critique of the totalizing politics of Armstrong's paper on gender and Milian's chapter on race.  It is an interesting, important and far-reaching conversation (that we need to be having).