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of timing and spacing can be found in an “elsewhere” to which a society of docile
subjects requests non-complying and non-utilizing subjects to disappear. Foucault’s
“elsewhere” also manifests a double meaning between disciplinary intent and
containment effect. From a position with/of disciplinary intent, confining certain
subjects in “elsewhere” is to recognize the validity of those who conform to the social
norm by punishing non-conforming and non-compliant subjects. Given the part that
punishment plays in accompanying classification, containment, and non-recognition of
an individual as such, the sense of relief of a disciplining position is doubled in seeing
the removal of the Other and in knowing what/how they are categorized.
While space constantly reflects and shapes social, economic, and politics
practices in representing meanings of an individual subjectivity, an individual with
socially marked differences tries to prevail in the space assigned. While the construction
of queer space is used as the containment of the Other with various Otherness, it can be
perceived on the other hand as the chance for those who have tried to find a way in
which they can escape from social stigma and marginalization, from the constant
exploitation of their exposed identity, and from non-being. In Epistemology of the Closet,
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick describes the hopeless circumstances of the confined subjects
who try to come out of from the closet and blend into social relations. Instead of finding
a way to escape from their marginality, the confined subjects confront a fact that they
cannot be independent of the closet space. The closet, once it is built, is not easily
removed. Whether an individual ignores the existence of the closet or accepts it as it is,
whether his closet identity is recognized by a society and is already “dealt” with, he will
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