Map -- Week 4
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The question is not, “Why did Josiah give his presentation in the dark?” The question is, “What happened when we were sitting in the (almost) dark?” What was it like to sit in the dark and listen to a presentation, or to ask and answer questions in the dark? What did it feel like, and where did those feelings come from? By “feelings”, I hope to evoke all possible meanings, so, physical and emotional feelings as well as thoughts, attitudes, or associations. How was it different from Laura’s part of the class, and why? What happened in the dark, and what didn’t happen? It was the first time in this class that we have been in the space together without being able to see each other clearly. Why is that not common?
The most interesting aspect of this weeks class for me was about Peggy Phelan's application of marked/unmarked. How she begins with men as marked an women as unmarked, but then later explores marks for racial-gendered people. I want to understand better her theory here. Regardless, I am in awe of her interdisciplinary approach, and I enjoyed hearing about art projects in her text that I was unaware of prior.
ReplyDelete-"Gender is in no way a stable identity or locus of agency from which various acts proceed; rather it it is an identity constituted in time--an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts" (p. 519)
ReplyDelete-Gender is not a starting place it is an identity repeatedly constructed over time
-You do not have gender first and then choose to perform it; rather, gender is created by the act of your performance. This performance is informed by what is already historically constituted as gender and is performed by the individual through acts of the body.
-Because gender identity is constructed through acts, there exists a possibility to construct a different gender by any other act.
-Performative acts which construct gender may appear ostensibly as a personal choice, but always work within the existing framework of cultural sanctions and proscriptions, of a “shared social structure (522)”.
-Butler rejects gender as coming from any internal essence or predetermined structure of being.
-The legacy of sedimented acts includes both the habitual performative acts of the individual and the accumulation of gender norms that produce the effect of a natural sex.
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