{"id":3659,"date":"2009-08-17T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2009-08-17T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:26:11","slug":"zizek-on-butler-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/08\/17\/zizek-on-butler-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek on Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from \u017di\u017eek&#8217;s 1993 interview with Peter Osborne<\/p>\n<p>\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj. &#8220;Postscript&#8221; (1993) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Critical Sense: Interviews with Intellectuals<\/span> ed. Peter Osborne, New York: Routledge, 1996<\/p>\n<ul class=\"unIndentedList\">\n<li> These Foucauldian practices of inventing new strategies, new identities, are ways of playing the late capitalist game of subjectivity (40)<em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"unIndentedList\">\n<li> [Lacan&#8217;s point] is that there is a certain fundamental deadlock &#8211; the Lacanian real, why not call it &#8216;gender trouble&#8217;? &#8211; and the putative subject formulates different symbolic constructs to avoid this deadlock.<em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"unIndentedList\">\n<li> Let&#8217;s not forget the famous problem of feminine enjoyment. The real does not refer to some substantial, positive entity beyond the symbolic, resisting symbolization. &#8230; So what Lacan calls &#8216;the real&#8217; is nothing beyond the symbolic, it&#8217;s merely <em>the inherent inconsistency of the symbolic order itself<\/em><em>. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"unIndentedList\">\n<li> It is the Lacanian notion of the real that I miss in <em>Gender Trouble <\/em>which produces its political problems. It is because of this that Butler&#8217;s political project remains entirely within a liberal-democratic frame (41).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"unIndentedList\">\n<li> The kernel that resists historicization is not a positive one, it is not notions like father, authority, Oedipus. The kernel that resists historicization can be defined only in the terms of a certain impossibility, a deadlock, in purely negative ways. &#8230; When the classical repressive patriarchal sexual ideology was breaking down, there was a certain opening, but as soon as these new forms of sexuality were integrated, this deadlock became invisible again (42).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from \u017di\u017eek&#8217;s 1993 interview with Peter Osborne \u017di\u017eek, Slavoj. &#8220;Postscript&#8221; (1993) A Critical Sense: Interviews with Intellectuals ed. Peter Osborne, New York: Routledge, 1996 These Foucauldian practices of inventing new strategies, new identities, are ways of playing the late capitalist game of subjectivity (40) [Lacan&#8217;s point] is that there is a certain fundamental &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/08\/17\/zizek-on-butler-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u017di\u017eek on Butler&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,15,41,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-subjectivity","category-the-real","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659","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=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3660,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions\/3660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}