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Disgust is a state of mind that revolts something and tries to stay it away. It is a direct sense of taste, smell, appearance, etc. And disgust, as a material and mental experience of the difference is also reproduced in various expressions that realize the social discrimination. Thus, we can understand it as relational effects of fluid powers operating between such beings, that is, affects and emotionalpolitical actions. The earliest forms of evolutionary discourse have already described disgust as the effect of the material workings of inner/outer powers, and this position is also advocated by modern emotional psychology. Julia Cristeva’s ‘Abjection Theory’ explains the hysterical process of becomingsubject which the ego faces in the preoedipal phase. And the theory suggests the aesthetics of heterogeneity about beingdiscriminatedagainst and its expressions. The ‘abject’ is objects that excluded and abominated by the ego. It is also the obscure others that exists undifferentiated in the primitive, nonlinguistic relationship of a mother and child. The ego captures its identity by disgusting and excluding such others. The article translates Kristeva’s theory as an aestheticpolitical relational ontology that operated between powers of disgust, and explains the potential of the disgusted and excluded being with an aesthetic of heterogeneity.

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