queery
Posted by ungooglable on November 26, 2008 · 1 Comment
What do we make of Lessig’s use of the verbal “queering”? cf. Free Culture 167, in a critique of the war on drugs: “When you add together the burdens on the criminaljustice system, the desperation of generations of kids whose only real economic opportunities are as drug warriors, the queering of constitutional protections because of the constant surveillance this war requires […]”
I haven’t thought this through yet: I’m just logging as I read.
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Ungooglable 
I caught that too and wasn’t sure what to think. It has to be a conscious word choice, but I don’t quite get the point. [I can pretty much guarantee that it was marked in an edit at some point and that he stetted it — at least, I know I would have marked it. (^_^) ]