The law, power and the sexual saboteurs: the day truth was exposed as a cross dresser

Abstract

The Vampire—The assertion that interpretivist jurisprudence drains the life essence, the critical power, of feminist, queer and other radical political theory is contested, partly through a revision of the meaning of truth and language, and partly through the positing of a model for postmodern epistemology.The Story-teller—The epistemology of the meme is explained, and the critiques it potentiates are briefly explored. The ability of a postmodernist jurisprudence to ground both narrative and normative methodologies is observed.Postmodern revisions—Further implications and potentialities of a postmodernist political account are explored, including the importance of binarity and the disruptive/deconstructive effects of the crossers or boundary riders of gender and orientation.Fighting words—Jurisprudence as a discipline, prelimited as it is in scope, is incapable of the radical critique which postmodernist left politics both potentiates and demands. New avenues for political action must be explored.