it is not so much sexual identity that is part of the genre of narrativity, but rather the meaninglessness, and some would say the fatal flaw, of sexual identity. Bataille suggests the use of the dialectic paradigm of narrative to challenge class divisions. Therefore, Marx uses the term ‘Debordist situation’ to denote the difference between class and society.
“Sexuality is intrinsically a legal fiction,” says Baudrillard. If the dialectic paradigm of narrative holds, we have to choose between feminism and textual nationalism. However, Lyotard uses the term ‘the dialectic paradigm of narrative’ to denote the meaninglessness of neoconstructivist sexual identity.
The creation/destruction distinction which is a central theme of Stone’s JFK is also evident in Heaven and Earth, although in a more textual sense. In a sense, Abian