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Today, I am going to present you two articles. One is from Judith Butler, Critically Quuer and the other is Judith Halberstam Quuer temporality and Post-modern Geographies. At latter Im going to involve one of my friend's project as I find it relevant on this presentation.
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Body, Space & Performance
Today, I am going to present you two articles. One is from Judith Butler, Critically Quuer and the other is Judith Halberstam Quuer temporality and Post-modern Geographies. At latter Im going to involve one of my friend's project as I find it relevant on this presentation.
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Critically Queer - 5 segment
- Performative Power
- Queer Trouble
- Gender Performativity and Drag
- Queer Politics
- Melancholia and the Limits of Performance
- Gendered and Sexual Performativity
In "Critically Queer," the last chapter of Bodies that Matter, Judith Butler examines how the term "queer" changes from "signaling degradation . . . to signify[ing] a new and affirmative set of meanings" (223) and what the change implicates for the future of queer politics. Originally, "queer" was used to categorize people who were seen as having abnormal sexual inclinations in the continuous process of societal normalization of individuals in order to gain control and power over them as subjects. Gradually, however, those people who are labeled queers "reappropriate" this term for their own use in order to "reaffirm" their own sense of identity and purpose.
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Performative Power
- The practice of naming and categorizing - "Performative acts are forms of authoritative speech"
- Power does not come from a "speaking subject"
- "[B]inding power" comes from citing previous conventions.
Butler first begins discussing Eve Sedgwick's idea on the process of "queering" that "persists as a defining moment of perfomativity" (224) in which the practice of naming and categorizing—through the "speech acts"—enforces a certain "binding power" over actions. For example, when the priest says, "I pronounce you man and wife," the power and ideology of "heterosexualization" is reestablished and reinforced each time. In other words, "Performative acts are forms of authoritative speech" and it is through discourse that power is re-established and re-stabilized continuously (225). Furthermore, power does not come from a "speaking subject," such as the priest, but instead, the "binding power" comes from citing previous conventions, such as the traditional marriage vows that exists before any of the people taking part in the ceremony. For Butler, the discourse comes before the speaking "I," which then enables the subject to speak out while at the same time being limited by the language system in what can be said. Therefore, when a person says "I," s/he is in fact referring to and citing the established speaking "I" of the language system in which a speaking subject cannot exist before or outside of.
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Queer Trouble
- The issue of identity through discourse
- The dominant power "[a]ccumulates the force of authority through the repetition or citation of a prior, authoritative set of practices."
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Gender Performativity and Drag
- , "Gendering" is a "[c]ompulsory practice" of repetition. At the same time, this process is always undermined by the inability of a person to "inhabit the ideal s/he is compelled to approximate"
- Drag as always being a subversive force against the dominant heterosexual matrix that governs gender roles.
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Queer Politics
- the once "abjecting" (Julia Kriesteva's term) power of gender norms can then become a "site of resistance" for the marginalized groups to reappropriate
- The people who are queered have to cite this term along with its historical background first in order to change its abjecting power into a positive force
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Melancholia and the Limits of Performance
- Between 'performance as an act' and 'performativity as a citational process of the norm' because the former suggests a choice whereas the latter suggests a lack of will and a forcible power.
- "[D]rag allegorizes some set of melancholic incorporative fantasies that stabilize gender"
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Gendered and Sexual Performativity
- Drag performers perform "the sign of gender"
- the relationship between gender and sexuality is neither a causal one nor a determining one
Queer Temporality and Postmodern Geographies. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives.
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Judith Halberstam: Space
- The identities and the relationships that people enact and find in these spaces are real
- space that the identity is not masqueraded.
Queer uses of time and space develop, at least in part, in opposition to the institutions of family, heterosexuality, and reproduction. They also develop according to other logics of location, movement, and identification. If we try to think about queerness as an outcome of strange temporalities, imaginative life schedules, and eccentric economic practices, we detach queerness from sexual identity and come closer to understanding Foucault’s comment in “Friendship as a Way of Life” that “homosexuality threatens people as a ‘way of life’ rather than as a way of having sex” . In Foucault’s radical formulation, queer friendships, queer networks, and the existence of these relations in space and in relation to the use of time mark out the particularity and indeed the perceived menace of homosexual life. (Halberstam, 2005, 1).
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