On Erotic Accountability

Queer Faith ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 200-244
Author(s):  
Melissa E. Sanchez

This chapter focuses on lyrics written from the point of view of the unfaithful lover. Theological concepts of charity, forgiveness, and confession can inform secular discussions of erotic accountability: what we owe those we love and those who love us. Understanding accountability in the dual senses of responsibility and narration illuminated by Judith Butler, this chapter considers how aesthetic creation—the struggle to tell a coherent story of the self and its desires—constitutes an unattainable ethical obligation. The devotional and libertine poetry of John Donne, like the writings of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin before him, represents confession not as what Michel Foucault called an act of truth, but as an imaginative acknowledgment of guilt in potentia. Donne’s attention to the entanglement of matter and spirit resists the ideals of romance and rationality that have often been deemed the signal characteristics of “human” sexuality; instead, he writes from the perspective of a being coopted by foreign forces within and without. Counterintuitively, Donne is at his most religious when he defends promiscuous, impermanent, and impure intimacies. For the indiscriminate desire that Donne’s speakers pursue is a secular approximation of divine forgiveness and caritas, the arbitrary yet generous love for imperfect creatures regardless of merit.

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Flávio Carvalho

Resumo: O primeiro objetivo deste artigo diz respeito ao tratamento da docência a partir de um ponto de vista filosófico. O segundo objetivo pretende construir um arcabouço teórico para a Pedagogia do Esquecimento, cuja discussão faz parte de um projeto de investigação específico e mais amplo realizado pelo autor do artigo. Por fim, o texto visa desenvolver o questionamento de certo recorte da situação educacional e política vivida pelas brasileiras e pelos brasileiros nos últimos anos. Sendo assim, a partir das questões levantadas pelo autor e do diálogo oportunizado com o pensamento filosófico de Michel Foucault, resgatando a vivência política e de educador de Sócrates, também propondo o que aqui será chamado de Didática Psicagógica como modo de resistência política, este artigo pretende oportunizar que as leitoras e os leitores possam se reconhecer e se imiscuir na discussão, tornando o texto algo de si próprio, usando-o como ferramenta para pensar a si, suas ideias e práticas enquanto intelectual, profissional e cidadã(ão). Cuidar de si é já um ato de resistência. Palavras-chave: Ensino de filosofia. Pedagogia do esquecimento. Processos de subjetivação. Cuidado de si. Parresia.   Abstract: The first aim of this paper concerns the treatment of teaching from a philosophical point of view. The second one intends to build a theoretical framework for the Pedagogy of Forgetfulness, whose discussion composes a specific research carried out by the same author. Finally, paper aims to develop issues about some clipping of the educational and political situation which Brazilians live in recent years. Therefore, this paper aims to provide opportunities to the readers can recognize themselves in the discussion from the matters specified by the author and through the dialogue with the philosophical thought of Michel Foucault, by rescuing Socrates' political and educational experiences, by proposing the Psychagogical Didactics as a mode of political resistance also. We ask readers to take this discussion as their own, by using it as a tool to think about themselves, their ideas and practices in their intellectual, professional and citizenship experiences. Care of the self is already an act of resistance. Keywords: Teaching of philosophy. Pedagogy of forgetfulness. Process of subjectivation. Case of the self.   REFERÊNCIAS A PAPISA JOANA. Direção de Sönke Wortmann. Reino Unido, Alemanha: Constantin Films, 2009. 1 DVD (149 min.). BRASIL. Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais: Ensino Médio. Brasília: MEC/SEMEC, 1999. BRASIL. Presidência da República. Casa Civil. Subchefia para Assuntos Jurídicos. Decreto nº 9759, de 11 de abril de 2019. Extingue e estabelece diretrizes, regras e limitações para colegiados da administração pública federal. Disponível em: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2019-2022/2019/decreto/D9759.htm Acesso em: 25 abr. 2019. FOUCAULT, M. A Coragem da Verdade: O Governo de Si e dos Outros II. Trad. Eduardo Brandão. São Paulo: Editora WMF Martins fontes, 2014. NIETZSCHE, F. Escritos sobre Educação. Trad., apres. e notas de Noéli Correia de Melo Sobrinho. 6. Ed. Rio de Janeiro: PUC-Rio; São Paulo: Ed. Loyola, 2012.


Author(s):  
Ana Catarina Pereira

Resumo: No âmbito das teorias feministas do cinema, e dos estudos fílmicos em geral, algumas questões têm sido levantadas ao longo das últimas décadas, nomeadamente no que diz respeito à exigência de uma maior representatividade feminina no mundo da realização e produção cinematográficas. Sendo o olhar do espectador, como Laura Mulvey sugeriu, pressupostamente masculino, treinado por realizadores com fantasias e tendências voyeuristas homogéneas, a questão seguinte seria inevitável: poderá este mesmo olhar assumir características distintas, quando mediado por uma mulher? Poderá a arte, ao contrário dos anjos, ter sexo? Existirá, neste sentido, uma “estética feminina”, como Silvia Bovenschen, em artigo homónimo, publicado em Setembro de 1976, procura antecipar? Procurá-la não implicará um aprofundar de estereótipos associados à feminilidade e à masculinidade, todos eles redutores, segundo o ponto de vista de Michel Foucault e Judith Butler, bem como a atribuição de um certo carácter de exotismo, pela falta de representatividade nos circuitos artísticos? Enunciando e debatendo os principais argumentos dos autores mencionados, propomo-nos, no presente artigo, responder às questões colocadas. Palavras-chave: voyeurismo; espectadora; ausência; receptividade; identificação. Abstract: In the context of feminist theories of cinema, and film studies in general, some questions have been raised in the past few decades, concerning the need for a greater representation of women in the world of film making and production. Accepting the idea of a viewer gaze, as Laura Mulvey suggested, supposedly male, trained by directors with fantasies and uniformed voyeuristic tendencies, the next question is inevitable: might this gaze have different characteristics when mediated by a woman? Can the art, unlike the angels, have sex? Is there, in this sense, a “feminine aesthetic”, as Silvia Bovenschen, on an article with the same name, published in September 1976, looks forward to anticipate? To look for it does not imply a deepening of stereotypes associated with femininity and masculinity, all reducers, according to the point of view of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, as well as the assignment of a certain exoticism’ character, motivated by the lack of representation in the art circuit? Outlining and discussing the main arguments of the authors above mentioned, we propose, in this paper, to answer these questions. Keywords: voyeurism; female spectator; absence; receptivity; identification.Resumen: “Las mujeres son diferentes, y una manifestación natural de esta diferencia (nota bene!) es precisamente el hecho de que son incapaces de producir arte.” (Bovenschen, 1976: 115).Haciéndose eco del paralelismo ya realizado por Simone de Beauvoir en el ensayo El segundo sexo, Silvia Bovenschen vuelve, en un artículo publicado en 1976 que nos proponemos discutir aquí, a la asociación asumida entre una perspectiva descriptiva masculina y la verdad absoluta. En su opinión, el dominio de la producción artística por el género masculino habrá originado una inaccesibilidad y una extrañeza relativas a la otra mitad de la población, que se denuncia por el carácter de exotismo que muchos críticos votaron a los pocos, y de cierta forma lejos entre si mismos, objetos culturales producidos por las mujeres, a lo largo de la historia. Otra consecuencia natural de este fracaso, descrito por el uso del término déficit, importado del lenguaje economicista, todavía sería, a nuestro juicio, una segregación de la dicha producción en una sola clase: una escritura femenina, una mirada femenina, un rasgo femenino. Con la restricción, la incertidumbre se multiplica: la escritura femenina es la que centra su atención en mujeres fuertes y decididas, la que demuestra una sensibilidad y capacidad de observación característica de un género, o la que construye una narrativa entrecruzada, por la sociológicamente establecida capacidad de realizar múltiples tareas asociadas al mismo sexo?


2019 ◽  
pp. 149-182
Author(s):  
Margaret Notley

This chapter has to do with Berg’s interpretation of Erdgeist in Act 1 of his opera and connects it to the new, expanded understanding of censorship. Building on work by Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Robert C. Post wrote in 1998 that censorship “establishes the practices that define us as social subjects.” Post thereby offered a frame of reference for genres that have social practices as their subject matter, two of which critics have linked to Erdgeist: when Wedekind turned the first three acts of the Ur-Lulu into the basis of Erdgeist, he made the self-censorship that allows us to function in a society thematic in his new play. Berg chose to refine Wedekind’s material, but also to emphasize passages that reveal the origins of Erdgeist in a play Wedekind had conceived as a “monster tragedy”; in doing this, Berg clearly intended to prepare the second half of the opera.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-511
Author(s):  
Tim Christiaens

In his lectures on neoliberalism, Michel Foucault argues that neoliberalism produces subjects as ‘entrepreneurs of themselves’. He bases this claim on Gary Becker’s conception of the utility-maximizing agent who solely acts upon cost/benefit-calculations. Not all neoliberalized subjects, however, are encouraged to maximize their utility through mere calculation. This article argues that Foucault’s description of neoliberal subjectivity obscures a non-calculative, more audacious side to neoliberal subjectivity. Precarious workers in the creative industries, for example, are encouraged not merely to rationally manage their human capital, but also to take a leap of faith to acquire unpredictable successes. It is this latter risk-loving, extra-calculative side to neoliberal subjectivity that economists usually designate as ‘entrepreneurial’. By confronting Foucault with the theories of entrepreneurship of the Austrian School of Economics, Frank Knight, and Joseph Schumpeter, the Foucauldian analytical framework is enriched. Neoliberal subjectivation is not the monolithic promotion of utility-maximizing agents, but the generation of a multiplicity of modes for entrepreneurs to relate to oneself and the market.


2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Ann Ness

No critic of phenomenology, arguably, has been more influential in prefiguring recent discourses on power, gender, and sexuality that have emerged in dance studies in recent decades than the philosopher-historian-critic Michel Foucault. The number of dance scholars directly citing Foucault, and the number influenced indirectly by his ideas through intermediary theorists such as Judith Butler—perhaps the single most popular one—is so large as to require an essay of its own just to survey. Virtually every analysis of choreographic practice that has addressed these topics since the 1980s has drawn directly or indirectly on Foucault's theories. Indeed, the very mention of the term “discipline” in current dance scholarship (and many related fields as well) more or less automatically makes reference to Foucault's genealogical study of incarceration,Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison, translated into English asDiscipline and Punish: Birth of the Prison, and, in particular to the chapter, “Les corps dociles” or “Docile Bodies” (Foucault 1975, 137–171; 1975/1995, 135–170).


Author(s):  
Filomena Antunes Sobral ◽  
Daniela Morgado Oliveira

In the development of the relationship between the artist and his artistic creation, the deconstruction of concepts and ideas within the scope of artistic praxis leads to the reflection of the crucial role that the artist has in the conception and meaning of the work. His creative production, in turn, appropriates not only the expressive force of the author to assert itself as an artistic creation, but can also assume to be the reflection of the self, its identity and materializes in the form of self-portrait. The self-portrait expands the artist’s interiority, externalizing concerns and questions, and conveys a subjective point of view about himself and his view of art. But how does self-portrait contribute to self-awareness? And how does the artist reveal himself and communicate beyond his appearance?Based on these questions, the objective of this paper is to provide a reflection on self-portrait presenting the results of an artistic installation project that involved photographic language in the form of self-portrait and experimental video to represent feelings of disquiet. Influences such as Cindy Sherman, Lais Pontes or Francesca Woodman, whose creations approach the self-portrait in a not only original, but critical style, stand out.It is a project of academic and artistic nature supported by theoretical foundations. The results allow us to conclude that the artistic installation, which began by presenting a self-portraying self-seeking identity, frees itself from its creator to enhance multiple variable interpretations depending on the observer’s attention.


2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon D. Podmore

Despair (sickness of the spirit) and divine forgiveness are decisive psychological and theological themes essential to both Søren Kierkegaard's relational vision of ‘the self before God’ and his own personal struggles with guilt and the consciousness of sin. Reading Kierkegaard as both a physician and a patient of this struggle, therefore, this article examines The Sickness unto Death (1849) as an attempt to resolve the sinful ‘self’ by integrating a psychological perspective on despair with a theology of the forgiveness of sins. It is suggested that by presenting this integrative notion of self-knowledge through the ‘higher’ Christian pseudonym of Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard is indicting his own resistances to accepting divine forgiveness and thereby operating—via a ‘higher’ pastoral identity—as a physician to his own soul. By diagnosing the unconscious psychological and theological relationships between sin/forgiveness, offense, and human impossibility/divine possibility, Kierkegaard finally reveals faith—as a self-surrendering recognition of acceptance before the Holy Other—to be the key to unlocking the enigma of the self in despair.


Question ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (64) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassiana Lopes Stephan

No presente ensaio, tentaremos entender em que medida a tradição filosófica galgada no princípio de igualdade, atrelado à noção de natureza humana, teria paulatinamente conduzido à justificação e, até mesmo, à fundamentação da desconsideração ético-política do animal e da animalidade. Mais precisamente, a partir de uma perspectiva que interpreta os estudos de Michel Foucault acerca do cuidado de si no período socrático-platônico, sob a luz [A] das análises de Jean-Pierre Vernant no que concerne às diferenças entre a Antiguidade arcaica e a clássica e [B] das reflexões de Judith Butler a propósito da violência moral, indicaremos de que modo a emergência filosófica do princípio de igualdade teria influenciado na estruturação de uma dinâmica moralista que violenta explícita ou implicitamente o animal e, com ele, todos e todas que se distinguem biológica ou eticamente das normas que descrevem o ser humano e que prescrevem a sua humanidade. O nosso artigo é constituído por quatro partes que marcam a temporalidade da questão animal e que manifestam sua urgência no presente histórico. Através da narração de possíveis articulações entre o presente e o passado, buscamos diagnosticar os limites antropocêntricos da filosofia ético-política e, ao mesmo tempo, vislumbrar relações não-antropocêntricas entre humanos e animais. 


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