ABSTRACT
Lorian oddities—which would be risible were they not so often at the root of political confusion—often lurk in close proximity to what Antonio Gramsci calls the sexual question. Although Gramsci's fragmented theory of culture offers no hard account of sexual-question derangement, he insists that the ways in which questions are posed must be understood in relation to larger ideological and social formations. Conceding the historically specific racial and sexual identity of the privileged 1950s child, the opinion pin's its hopes on the absence of any necessary link between whiteness, maleness, and "success." In Warren's opinion, the moment of transformative possibility is hitched to the community of children; social differentiation will be a matter of their careers, beginning with their coming to "values" in the "fundamental" institution of school. The history of socialism's collapse and the history of state-regulated identities are part of a single, overdetermined history of postwar US politics and need to be read together.
