{"id":2544,"date":"2009-03-26T19:44:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T00:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2009-05-28T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T14:05:58","slug":"2544","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/03\/26\/2544\/","title":{"rendered":"constitutive outside"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ziarek, Ewa Ponowska. “From Euthanasia to the Other of Reason: Performativity and the Deconstruction of Sexual Difference” in Derrida and Feminism<\/span>. eds. Feder, Ellen K. et al. New York: Routledge. 1997, 115-140.<\/p>\n

If Butler draws on the Derridian theory of performativity in order to underscore the historicity and impurity of the law, she also supplements this theory in order to stress the compulsory character of heterosexuality. According to Butler, the normative power of heterosexuality requires not only the force effecting subjective identifications with its norms but also the force of dis-identifications, the force of exclusions, in particular, the exclusion of homosexuality: “the normative force of performativity \u2014 its power to establish what qualifies as ‘being’ \u2014 works not only through reiteration, but through exclusion as well.” (Butler Bodies 188) Thus, the compulsory force of “spectral” figures of abject homosexuality: “the feminized fag and the phallicized dyke” (Butler Bodies, 96) (129)<\/p>\n

It is precisely because iterability fails to perpetuate the identical and pure from of the law that any identity claims have to be reinforced by exclusions \u2014 they require“a constitutive outside.”<\/span> In other words, Butler, like \u017di\u017eek, concedes that the normativity of the law works by producing a certain outside to the symbolic universe. Yet, to avoid the ahistorical production of the REAL, Butler proposes to rethink the “constitutive outside”<\/span> as a social abject, the exclusion of which secures the domain of social intelligibility.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this formulation, the process of exclusion is never neutral but performs a normative and normalizing social function:<\/p>\n

“the abject designates here precisely those “unlivable” and “uninhabitable” zones of social life which are nevertheless densely populated by those who do not enjoy the status of the subject… This zone of uninhabitability will constitute the defining limit of the subject’s domain; it will constitute that site of dreaded identification against which \u2014and by virtue of which\u2014 the domain of the subject will circumscribe its own claim to autonomy and to life.” (Butler Bodies 3) (129).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ziarek, Ewa Ponowska. “From Euthanasia to the Other of Reason: Performativity and the Deconstruction of Sexual Difference” in Derrida and Feminism. eds. Feder, Ellen K. et al. New York: Routledge. 1997, 115-140. If Butler draws on the Derridian theory of performativity in order to underscore the historicity and impurity of the law, she also supplements … Continue reading “constitutive outside”<\/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":[84,78,80,110,112,32,86,102,24,40,16,82,94,15,41],"tags":[105,109],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abject","category-butler","category-citationality","category-constitutive-outside","category-foreclosure","category-foucault","category-gender","category-iterability","category-lacan","category-lack","category-ontology","category-performativity","category-sexual-difference","category-subjectivity","category-the-real","tag-thedebate","tag-whoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","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=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}