{"id":2540,"date":"2009-03-26T19:26:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T00:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2009-09-02T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T00:17:08","slug":"performativity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/03\/26\/performativity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"performativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ziarek, Ewa Ponowska. &#8220;From Euthanasia to the Other of Reason: Performativity and the Deconstruction of Sexual Difference&#8221; in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Derrida and Feminism<\/span>. eds. Feder, Ellen K. et al. New York: Routledge. 1997, 115-140.<\/p>\n<p>What is the nature of such performative identification? Performativity for Butler, as for Derrida, consist neither in voluntary decisions of the self nor in involuntary acts governed by the law that is external to them. To avoid impasses of social constructivism that sees the subject as merely an effect of social conditions, Butler stresses the fact that the reiteration of the norm (code) constitutes not only the subject but also the meaning of the symbolic law. Not a simple cause of the subject, the law itself is produced by the repetition of subjective approximations in time. Because it does not have a fixed form apart from its approximations through subjective acts, the law, despite its compulsory force, is marked by the &#8220;infelicities&#8221; and the infidelities characteristic of performative utterances.\u00a0 The repetition of acts understood as the citation of the law stabilizes the form of the law, and, at the same time, produces a &#8220;dissonance&#8221; and inconsistency within it.\u00a0 Indissociable from &#8220;irruptive violence,&#8221; reiteration sustains and undercuts both the permanence of the law and the identity of the subject: &#8220;the law is no longer given in a fixed form .. but is produced through citation as that which proceeds and exceeds the mortal approximations enacted by the subject.&#8221; (Butler Bodies, 14)\u00a0 For Butler, like for Derrida, the possibility of failure and impurity afflicting the repetition of sexual norms is not only an unfortunate predicament or &#8220;trauma&#8221;, but also a positive condition of possibility.\u00a0 By opening the possibility of intervention and redescription of sexual norms, reiteration not only stresses the historicity of the law but also open an &#8220;incalcuable&#8221; future, no longer submitted to its jurisdiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ziarek, Ewa Ponowska. &#8220;From Euthanasia to the Other of Reason: Performativity and the Deconstruction of Sexual Difference&#8221; in Derrida and Feminism. eds. Feder, Ellen K. et al. New York: Routledge. 1997, 115-140. What is the nature of such performative identification? Performativity for Butler, as for Derrida, consist neither in voluntary decisions of the self nor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/03\/26\/performativity-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;performativity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,83,78,80,86,102,82,98,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abject","category-agency","category-butler","category-citationality","category-gender","category-iterability","category-performativity","category-resignify","category-subjectivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3713,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}