Through its incitement to androgyny and to the performance of gender roles presumed to be inappropriate to one’s anatomical sex, inversion is also figured [in Huysmans] as a subversion of nature in favor of text.
Decadence and Catholicism

Interesting in itself; and also, forcing a separation of nature and text in this way seems to me to be the opposite approach from e.g. the theology of the body/”language of the body” approach. See also here.


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