Disforia di Genre

In the first part of the following essay, I deal with the difference between two words, which are similar in English – “genre” and “gender” – but different, both in the written way and in sound. The Italian translation of genre and gender is just one word: genere. There is no difference in the way they are written or even in the sound. Actually, “genre” and “gender” in English have two completely different meaning, I would say that they are one – “genre” – the opposite to the other – “gender”. “Genre” means something unique and singular, it is a term used within modernity for indicating the style of an author as a subject of a work of art, poem, or literary piece. “Gender” is an ancient word; it belongs to the 13th Century; “gender” emphasizes the ideal perspective that reality has to be divided and administrated in sets of things, which have something in common: categories. In the second part of the essay, I analyse freakery and monstrosity as the way to put singularity at the margins, using categorization. Nonetheless, such a discrimination and marginalization of weird and filthy (what is not part of ideal reality), has the paradoxical effect to make such a residual and excluded part more curious and attractive. Any gender has its own haecceity, which, at its time, must be categorized, but not without a residual part that is still another haecceity, in an infinite process of becoming.