If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to `normalize’ formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.
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Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture . (based on this sentence and work, in 1998, the journal Philosophy and Literature awarded Bhabha the second prize in its Bad Writing Competition) quoted from Malhotra, R. & Viswanathan V. (2022). Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0. chapter 11