In
Just
Like I Like It,
Danielle LaFrance combines poetry and autotheory as a means of
targeting ideological infatuation, spilling into an obsession with
ideological abolishment. Just
Like I Like It
searches for ways to kill and abolish "it," seeking means
to get it done right, even when attempted slowly and stupidly, even
if the only way out is death. LaFrance draws on stupidity,
sadomasochism, pretend power, parasitism, and violent revolutionary
desubjectification to shape a felt experience, not so much asking as
inhabiting a series of questions, including: "What are the
implications of abolishing the self as it is racialized, gendered,
and classed?" and "Can a theoretical framework hold every
contradiction in tandem when every contradiction is substantial and
felt?" Each page of Just
Like I Like It
pokes "it" awake all over again, culminating in a number of
accomplished failures, including "It Makes Me Iliad," a
reworking of Homer's Iliad. Poetry, it seems, is the best weapon for
wiping it out with fewer casualties - which is why it is never
enough.
