Judith Butler and Hélène Cixous and Avital Ronnell at the New School in October of 2011.
🙂 This talk needs more attention than I can give it now. Cixous is hypnotizing in a way which bounces off Butler nicely
The word kinship feminist anthropology ask forms of relationship exceed form of family, then family is but 1 historical instance of kinship.
How do we distinguish between family, kin, community, and even broader modes of belonging we founder on the categories themselves
open-ended temporal iteration, a constitutive disruption, we can’t begin with stipulative definitions, we can only know kinship relations through the breach
At what moments does one become kin? Sudden swing that belongs to affective life. I belong here, I will die if I stay here. It is not an order that quells a disturbance or disruption, a breach prior to any question to Order or Law, they arrive later to make sense of the breach. The repetition of the breach is the sign and substance of kinship itself.
All seek to codify …
Oedipus Could not properly recognize his mother/father, could not recognize them consciously, how can unconscious forms of intimating take place?
Funny moment
Antigone she contradicts, an impossible utterance which one is the brother?
Extended portion of her talk dedicated to Bachae a blind frenzy, Dionysus, Pentheus has lost control of women, submit delerious, guilt ridden recognition, the position of the father is articulated through a double lie
Kinship is then … articulated in the breach and guilt and sorrow that follow, relations enacted precisely through the disruptions, displacement, modes of passionate unknowingness, living out a set of passions that constantly disrupt one another
Butler mentions that Derrida was critiquing Levi-Strauss theory of kinship structure is iterable, is a temporal elaboration, iterable defined by its ruptures, ruptures constitutive of structure. the rupture in structure as iterability.
METAPHORICITY OF BLOOD