scholarly journals Creolizing Cultures and Kinship: Then and There, Now and Here

2015 ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Giovanna Covi
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Jamaica Kincaid ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Edouard Glissant ◽  
Audre Lorde ◽  
Adrienne Rich ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Kamau Brathwaite ◽  
African Caribbean

This paper considers literary texts by women writers that trouble mainstream definitions of family and love to figure shared knowledges. Through intercultural performances, they stage conversations between Euro-American, African-American, and African-Caribbean cultures to re-present kinship (Judith Butler) as a concept which by being as elastic as intimacy (Ara Wilson) and affects (Leela Gandhi), enables figurations (Donna Haraway) and hence actions that point towards a shared planetarity (Gayatri C. Spivak). I argue that these cultural products nourish creolizing agency (Edouard Glissant and Kamau Brathwaite) which prevents us from falling into a regime of terror, where crisis is equated to public and domestic paralysis under a state of emergency. This is so because they effectively show how to join poetics with politics and ethics, and thus to build collectivities of belonging (Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich). I seek to demonstrate that the creolizing capability of such discourse, as articulated for example by Toni Morrison, Kim Ragusa, Joan Anim-Addo, and Jamaica Kincaid, deconstructs otherness without assimilating it, because it embraces translation as the mode (Walter Benjamin) of the always already necessary impossibility. In tune with Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan’s emphasis on translation as a mode which allows us to imagine conjunctures and intersections that have no originals and cannot speak in a single language, this paper insists on the primary importance of critique to confront questions of power; It offers figurations of the global that, by incorporating intimacy, affects, and by troubling kinship, map material and discoursive reality in a manner that is widely inclusive, through affiliation (Edward Said) rather than filiation. By thematizing love as political practice, the literary texts here examined contribute to the phenomenological grounding of the discourse on affects inaugurated by Eve K. Sedgwick and further elaborated by Rosi Braidotti. Kincaid’s See Now Then provides the wording of my argument: because these figurations never forget the then of colonialism, they bring forward a now of globalization that is populated by subjectivities—Radical Others—capable of subverting and transgressing the establishment, without erasing their own vulnerability.

scholarly journals Transdeseantes: de la heterosexualidad obligatoria al deseo lesbiano

2013 ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Patricia Mateo Gallego
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
Political Institution ◽  
Audre Lorde ◽  
Adrienne Rich ◽  
Monique Wittig ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Compulsory Heterosexuality ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Las Mujeres

Resumen de Transdeseantes: de la heterosexualidad obligatoria al deseo lesbianoPatricia Mateo GallegoEn este artículo nos aproximamos a las teorías de cuatro autoras de referencia ineludible en el pensamiento feminista: Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Monique Wittig y Judith Butler. Todas ellas, y en este trabajo por extensión, se ocuparon de desentrañar la lógica que hace que unos grupos opriman a otros. Más concretamente, la lógica por la que la opresión de los hombres se ejerce sobre las mujeres. Nos referimos a la heterosexualidad obligatoria entendida como una institución política al servicio de un sujeto hegemónico que no desea perder su lugar privilegiado. Especialmente nos aproximaremos a posturas vitales desde las que desestabilizar este modo perverso de mantener a las mujeres en una posición de otredad.This article approaches the theories of four main authors in feminist thought: Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Monique Wittig and Judith Butler. All of them focused �as this article does� on the logic relations that makes some groups oppress others. Specifically, the logic that allows and perpetuates the tyranny exercised by men over women. We refer here to the compulsory heterosexuality that functions as a political institution by which an hegemonic subject preserves his privileged position. Moreover, we approach some personal positions from which it is possible to destabilize that established perverse way of keeping women in a position of otherness.

scholarly journals Creation procedures in The Parthenon Metopes, by Romeo Castelluci

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (38) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Renan Marcondes
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Andy Warhol ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
American Artist ◽  
The Relationship

The article analyzes procedures for creation and staging of the play The Partenon Metophes, by Romeo Castellucci. Based on Judith Butler and Walter Benjamin, we analyze central topics for the work, such as: the artist's use of images of war and violence that circulate in our daily lives; dialogue with aspects of the tragedy; the reference to the American artist Andy Warhol; the dissociation of the relationship between seeing and knowing that he proposes to his audience. Focusing on the formal choices of unframing, repetition of scenes and exposure of the bodies of the actors and actresses in this play, we seek to understand how the artist seeks a work in which the experiences of commotion and catharsis are suspended or displaced.

scholarly journals Casais felizes e relações duradouras: a representação da existência lésbica na obra "Amora", de Natalia Polesso

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Vanessa Ferreira Vieira ◽  
Eurídice Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
Adrienne Rich ◽  
Monique Wittig ◽  
De Se

Este artigo tem a proposta de refletir de que maneira a representação de casais lésbicos na literatura contemporânea pode contribuir para desestabilizar o pensamento heterossexual que se sobressai em nossa sociedade. Serão analisados os contos Vó, a senhora é lésbica, Marília acorda e As tias, da obra Amora, de Natalia Polesso (2015). As três narrativas têm como personagens principais casais formados por duas mulheres, as quais vivem juntas há muitos anos e, por isso, podem ser analisadas como exemplo de relacionamento fora do padrão heteronormativo. Servirão de embasamento teórico ao estudo os textos de Monique Wittig (2017), sobre o pensamento straight, de Adrienne Rich (2010), a respeito da existência lésbica, e de Judith Butler (2016), no que tange à questão do feminismo na contemporaneidade. Embora as autoras não concordem em alguns aspectos dessa temática, todas apontam a necessidade de se discutir e se destacar o papel das mulheres lésbicas não apenas no campo literário, mas no mundo acadêmico e social.

Technologies of Critique

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willy Thayer
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Critique—a program of thought as well as a disposition toward the world—is a crucial resource for politics and thought today, yet it is again and again instrumentalized by institutional frames and captured by market logics. This book elaborates a critical practice that eludes such capture. Building on Chile's history of dissident artists and the central entangling of politics and aesthetics, the book engages continental philosophical traditions, from Aristotle, Descartes and Heidegger through Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, and in implicit conversation with the Judith Butler, Roberto Esposito, and Bruno Latour, to help pinpoint the technologies and media through which art intervenes critically in socio-political life.

scholarly journals POR UMA ÉTICA JUDAICA DA NÃO-VIOLÊNCIA: JUDITH BUTLER LEITORA DE WALTER BENJAMIN

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (25) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Ricardo Araújo Dib Táxi ◽  
Nilton Augusto Duarte das Chagas
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Judith Butler

scholarly journals El cuerpo performativo de Regina José Galindo: el género y el deseo en sus obras de 2012

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-167
Author(s):  
Sonia Cejudo Escamilla
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
Audre Lorde

Se aborda la obra performática de Regina José Galindo presentada durante 2012, a la luz de lo que Mieke Bal llamó "objeto teorético. Aunque a primera vista no se observa una denuncia de la violencia de género, ello permite ahondar en la relación entre performance, performatividad, género, sexo y deseo. Las obras evidencian el argumento de Judith Butler de que el sexo ha sido tan construido culturalmente como el género y se percibe que la espectadora juega un rol activo en la performatividad del género. Asimismo, con base en la definición de lo erótico como poder de Audre Lorde, se observa que el deseo es un impulso inconsciente y un acto reflexivo que involucra a la espectadora en la búsqueda de justicia social.

scholarly journals “NÃO SOMOS FÃS DE CANALHA”: poéticas políticas afrodiaspóricas na 34ª Bienal de São Paulo

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (26) ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Janaína Machado
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Edouard Glissant ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Audre Lorde

O presente texto busca propor uma reflexão crítica a respeito das poéticas políticas da negritude apresentadas na mostra Vento da programação da 34ª Bienal de São Paulo realizada em 2020. Com intuito de analisar essas intervenções artísticas a partir da noção de corpo-testemunha de Stênio Soares, autodeterminação e autorrevelação da escritora feminista Audre Lorde,  noções de  poéticas dos filósofos Achille Mbembe e Édouard Glissant, e a radiografia dos Racionais MC´S,  busco sistematizar as poéticas políticas apresentadas na mostra Vento pelo recorte da produção artística afrodiaspórica em torno da reflexão sobre os discursos éticos e poéticos nelas presentes. Neste texto, as poéticas políticas afrodiaspóricas são interpretadas como síntese da radiografia poética da negritude. Em suma, busca-se contribuir para os estudos da participação e mapeamento de artistas afrodiaspóricos na história das bienais de São Paulo.        

scholarly journals A morte como higienização social/sexual na obra de Nelson Rodrigues: uma leitura de gênero, sexualidade e masculinidades

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-129
Author(s):  
Paulo Valente
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
Adrienne Rich

Este artigo pretende revisitar o conto-crônica “Delicado”, do dramaturgo e jornalista Nelson Falcão Rodrigues (1994), presente na coletânea A vida como ela é..., fruto de seu trabalho para o jornal Zero Hora, a fim de discutir de que modo a narração evidencia uma sociedade heteronormativa compulsória a qual violenta a existência do protagonista alheio à norma, a ponto de este vir a provocar a própria morte, não suportando a pressão externa para cumprir o seu ‘papel de homem’. Ao longo da escrita, evidenciamos como Eusebiozinho, personagem principal, ao romper com o binarismo sexual e norma social, é obrigado a retornar a um suposto lugar original/apriorístico, o da masculinidade hegemônica, por via da heterossexualidade compulsória, imposta pela família e representada pela figura do tio. Recorremos, para tanto, aos estudos queer e aos textos de Adrienne Rich (2003), Judith Butler (2005), Monique Witting (1992), Teresa de Lauretis (1994), Robert Connell (1995) e Michael Foucault (2001), dentre outros.

scholarly journals „Auf das Material kommt es an“ – Franz Friedrichs Roman Die Meisen von UUsimaa singen nicht mehr als Reflex auf den Umbruch ins digitale Zeitalter

2017 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Beate Sommerfeld
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Analogue To Digital

Der Artikel behandelt den Roman Die Meisen von UUsimaa singen nicht mehr 2014 des Experimentalfilmers und Autors Franz Friedrich als Reflex auf den Umbruch vom analogen zum digitalen Zeitalter. Stark polarisierend bezieht der Roman zum Medienwandel Stellung und schlägt sich auf die Seite der Analogmedien Fotografie und Film, wobei er auf den Fotografie- und Filmdiskurs des 20. Jahrhunderts von Bela Balazs, Walter Benjamin bis hin zu Roland Barthes und Georges Didi-Huberman zurückgreift. Indem der Roman ein Gewebe aus photoästhetischen Topoi, Metaphern und Diskursen spinnt, modelliert er eine Ästhetik des Abdrucks und der Berührung, die auf Roland Barthes’ Modell des “vokalischen Schreibens” rekurriert. Das Unbehagen an der Repräsentation, das aus Friedrichs Roman spricht, geht mit einer nostalgisch gefärbten Sehnsucht nach dem Authentischen einher.“The material matters” — reflections on the upheaval from analogue to digital media in the novel The Tits of Uusimaa Don’t Sing Any More by Franz Friedrich The purpose of the article is to show how literary texts reflect upon the upheaval from analogue to digital media using the example of the novel The Tits of Uusimaa Don’t Sing Any More by the experimental filmmaker and author Franz Friedrich 2014. Friedrich approaches the technological shift from analogue to digital and the transforming landscape of media from a critical viewpoint by looking back at the early 20th-century scenario of intermedial exchange. Doing so, he refers to the 20th-century media discourse Béla Balázs, Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes and Georges Didi-Huberman, scrutinizing and redefining analogue media by referring to various topoi, metaphors the analogue as a mental imprint of the real. Friedrich confronts the representation paradigm of literature to the aesthetic of contact and resonances, strongly related to Roland Barthes’ concept of “vocal writing”.

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