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Michel Foucault and Judith Butler: troubling Butler's appropriation of Foucault's work
No full textOne of the main influences on Judith Butler‘s thinking has been the work of Michel Foucault. Although this relationship is often commented on, it is rarely discussed in any detail. My thesis makes a contribution in this area. It presents an analysis of Foucault‘s work with the aim of countering Butler‘s representation of his thinking. In the first part of the thesis, I show how Butler initially interprets Foucault‘s project through Nietzschean genealogy, psychoanalysis and Derridean discourse, and how she later develops this interpretation in line with the progress of her own project. In the main part of the thesis, I present an analysis of Foucault‘s thinking in the period from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) to The History of Sexuality volume 1 (1976). This analysis focuses on the aspect of his work which has most influenced Butler‘s thinking: namely the notion of a relationship between knowledge, discourse and power. The other issues in his work which Butler addresses—genealogy, the subject, the body, abnormality, and sexuality—are discussed within this framework. I show how, in the early 1970s, Foucault develops the notion of power-knowledge, and sets out a relationship between power-knowledge and discourse which is overlooked by Butler. I argue that Butler interprets Foucaultian power through the notions of repression and social norms, and ignores the concepts of technology and strategy which form a key part of Foucault‘s thinking. I show how, from The Archaeology of Knowledge on, Foucault develops a socio-historical ontology and a genealogy of the subject, both of which are at variance with Butler‘s interpretation of his thinking
Prolegómenos de la performatividad: Un diálogo posible entre J.L. Austin, J. Derrida y J. Butler
No full textUna de las teorías más destacadas dentro del feminismo actual, tanto académico como militante, es la teoría de construcción identitaria que supo desarrollar a fines del milenio la filósofa norteamericana Judith Butler. Dicha teoría gira en torno a un concepto clave: performatividad. El presente trabajo resulta un esbozo de los antecedentes teóricos de los que Judith Butler es tributaria intentando establecer los giros y torsiones del performativo acuñado por J.L. Austin. Nuestro propósito entonces es hacer un rastreo de dichos antecedentes conceptuales para iluminar los presupuestos ontológicos y epistemológicos que la teoría de Butler encierra. Es decir, intentaremos dilucidar las condiciones de posibilidad que dan soporte a la ontología deconstructiva que promueve la autora. Para ello, estableceremos algunos encuentros y desencuentros entre la teoría de los actos de habla austiniana y de la iterabilidad derrideana
Inter-reciprocity applied to electrical networks
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Agamben, G., ŽiŽek, S., Nancy, J.L., Berardi, F., López Petit, S., Butler, J., Badiou, A., Harvey, D., Han, B.C., Zibechi, R., Galindo, M., Gabriel, M., Yañez González, G., Manrique, P., Preciado, P.B. (2020). Sopa de Wuhan. Pensamiento contemporáneo en tiempos de pandemias. ASPO, 188 p.
No full textReview of: Reseña de: Agamben, G., ŽiŽek, S., Nancy, J.L., Berardi, F., López Petit, S., Butler, J., Badiou, A., Harvey, D., Han, B.C., Zibechi, R., Galindo, M., Gabriel, M., Yañez González, G., Manrique, P., Preciado, P.B. (2020). Sopa de Wuhan. Pensamiento contemporáneo en tiempos de pandemias. ASPO, 188 p.Reseña de: Agamben, G., ŽiŽek, S., Nancy, J.L., Berardi, F., López Petit, S., Butler, J., Badiou, A., Harvey, D., Han, B.C., Zibechi, R., Galindo, M., Gabriel, M., Yañez González, G., Manrique, P., Preciado, P.B. (2020). Sopa de Wuhan. Pensamiento contemporáneo en tiempos de pandemias. ASPO, 188 p
'Twas on the beach at Brighton one fine Summer day, I met this handsome man who stole my heart away [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voiceTo Wm. Lingard, Author & Singerads on inside back cover for J.L. Peters stock353-3Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
053, Item 027W.D. Raphaelson.Sung by LingardPaleri[?
Subjectivity and Difference: Butler and Braidotti
No full textJudith Butler and Rosi Braidotti are recognized as the inheritors of
postmodern tradition, in their ideas deconstruct the myth of a stable
and an unequivocally characterized identity. Both, Butler and Braidotti
express the belief, that human being cannot get rid of defining her/his
own subjectivity. Therefore, Braidotti and Butler have created original
concepts of the subjectivity. Both, Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotii,
represent the third wave of feminism, therefore they begin the
discussion on the subjectivity from similar initial assumptions: the end
of "I/self" understood in a metaphysical way, the definition of a new
subjectivity of women.
Judith Butler drawing on J.L. Austin’s philosophical achievements and
the theory of performative acts of speech (performative utterance),
creates an innovative concept of the subjectivity, which is established
by/through performative acts. Rosi Braidotti is focused on the revision
of the idea of the woman and the constitution of new women’s
subjectivity. Braidotti conceives woman as a nomadic entity, who is
ambiguous, embodied, cultural, etc
'Twas on the beach at Brighton one fine Summer day, I met this handsome man who stole my heart away [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voiceTo Wm. Lingard, Author & Singerads on inside back cover for J.L. Peters stock353-3Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
053, Item 027W.D. Raphaelson.Sung by LingardPaleri[?
Rozbrajając "Walczące słowa" Judith Butler - recenzja
No full textThe aim of this essay is to attempt to engage in polemics with the theory of hate speech endorsed
by Judith Butler in her book Excitable Speech. The text will try to show that the Butlerian strategy
of textualization of hate speech. If it is understood as a main tool of fighting with injurious speech,
fails and, in fact, hinders this fight. The argument will touch both upon the theory and its practical
application. On the theoretical level, the deconstruction of J.L. Austin’s speech acts by Butler,
along with a similar, earlier treatment of Austin by Derrida, will be criticized. In terms of practice,
it will be attempted to view some of the recent, controversial events concerning hate speech
through the lens of Butler’s theory, and to show the inadequacies of treating her theory as an
effective tool of fighting injurious utterances
Judith Butler on Gender Performativity
No full textThis article examines Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity, a pivotal concept in contemporary feminist and queer theory. Originating from Butler’s Gender Trouble (1990) and further developed in Bodies That Matter (1993), the theory challenges traditional distinctions between sex and gender by arguing that both are socially constructed through performative acts. Butler critiques the binary notion that biological sex predetermines gender identity, instead proposing that gender is continually constituted through repeated social performances within a regulatory framework Butler calls the “heterosexual matrix”. Drawing on J.L. Austin’s speech act theory and Jacques Derrida’s concepts of citationality and iterability, Butler asserts that gender is not an inherent trait but an effect produced through iterative acts. The article also explores Butler’s engagement with Louis Althusser’s concept of interpellation to explain how individuals are assigned gender identities at birth. It highlights how normative gender constructs are maintained through social rituals and coercive mechanisms, but also how these norms can be destabilized through subversive repetitions, such as parody and drag. The discussion underscores Butler’s view of agency as emerging within the discursive constraints of gender norms, offering a pathway to challenge and transform these structures through performative resignification
Performativity as critical praxis: J.L Austin, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Catherine Malabou, c. 1955-2014
No full textIn the second half of the twentieth century, the concept of “performativity” came to play a leading role in academic discourse in the philosophy of language, deconstruction, queer and gender studies, art theory, and performance studies. Most recently, it has taken centre stage in the emerging interdisciplinary field of performance philosophy. Despite its ubiquity, however, performativity remains enigmatic. Accounting for the capacity of speech to bring about the action that it designates, and the processes through which identities are enacted, and meaning is produced, the concept lies somewhere in the tensions among language, embodiment, and action. As such, it is a singularly important term in understanding the meaning and significance of contemporary art and performance in relation to modernist norms and values. My dissertation provides a rigorous historicization and theorization of performativity by means of an analysis of the key texts by its major theorists. It argues that J.L Austin, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Catherine Malabou envision modes of performative writing that enact the ideas that their texts describe. In other words, I propose that they resist traditional modes of logical argumentation and disseminate their theories of performativity in a performative manner. An intellectual history written in the first person, each chapter narrates my phenomenological reception of a rhetorical performance by one of the above philosophers. Through it, performativity emerges as a mode of critical praxis characterized by both discursive resistance and embodied transgression—one that makes the ontological borders between philosophy and art more porous.Depuis la seconde moitié du 20e siècle, le concept de « performativité » occupe une place importante dans le discours universitaire dans les domaines de la philosophie du langage, la déconstruction, les études queer et de genres, le discours artistique, et les études sur la performance. Plus récemment, le concept s’est retrouvé au cœur du champ d’étude interdisciplinaire émergent qu’est la philo-performance. Malgré l’omniprésence du terme, la performativité reste encore énigmatique. Illustrant la capacité du langage de susciter l’action qu’il désigne, ainsi que les processus de production de sens et de construction identitaire, le concept s’inscrit dans les tensions entre le langage, l’incarnation et l’action. Ce terme revêt donc une importance toute particulière pour la compréhension des processus de signification de l’art contemporain et de la performance, et de leur questionnement des normes et valeursmodernistes. Par une analyse de textes fondamentaux de théoriciens majeurs, ma thèse présente une analyse théorique et un survol historique rigoureux de la performativité, soutenant ainsi que l’écriture performative de J.L Austin, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler et Catherine Malabou met en scène les notions que leurs textes décrivent. En d’autres termes, cette écriture résiste aux modes traditionnels d’argumentation logique et diffuse la théorie inhérente de la performativité de manière performative. Dans cette histoire intellectuelle écrite à la première personne, j’expose dans chacun des chapitres ma réception phénoménologique de la performance rhétorique mise de l’avant par les philosophes susmentionnés. La performativité y émerge comme un mode de pratique critique caractérisé à la fois par une résistance discursive et une transgression incarnée, où les frontières ontologiques entre la philosophie et l’art deviennent plus poreuses
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