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After the publication of Paul deMan's Wartime Journalism when questions of ethics suddenly become foregrounded in contemporary high theory an under the increasing pressures from New Historicism, ludic feminism has made new attempts to rearticulate materialism in a less discursive manner. The pressures on reunderstanding materialism' as a nondiscursive force tory burch outlet have not been entirely internal to theory. At the end of the 1980's, as a result of conservative social policies in the U.S. and Europe for example, new tax laws, a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the owning class has taken place.

Moreover, the working of postmodern capitalism has literally affected everyday life in U.S. and European cities homelessness, crime in neighbourhoods devastated by unemployment, abandoned children ... . In the face of such conditions, the idea of progressive politics as simply a question of changing representations and problematising the obvious meanings in culture has become tory burch flip flops outlet too hollow to be convincing. As part of the emergence of ethics in critical theory and the decline of high theory itself, ludic feminism has been rethinking its own understanding of materialism. In the 1990's materialism in ludic feminism is no longer simply the matter of language, rather it has become the resisting matter of the nondiscursive, or as

Diana Fuss puts it in her Essentially Speaking, the body as matter 52. The main theorists of this new version of materialism are writers such as Judith Butler and Elizabeth Grosz. Increasingly the notion of materialism deployed by Eve Sedgewick and other queer theorists is to a very large extent influenced by Butler. The idea of the nondiscursive the real or primary relations is, tory burch flip flops sale of course, available even in the early work of Foucault himself Archaeology of Knowledge, for example 4546; 6869. Butler, whose recent writings are increasingly marked by her engagement with something called the non/extradiscursive is, of course, a close reader of Foucualt. Butler's doctoral dissertation, later published as Subjects of Desire, it is helpful to keep in mind, is focused, in part, on Foucault. What is of great importance in any theory of materialism is the way in which the relation of the material to the nonmaterial is articulated.