Politics: Butler's Corporeal Politics: Matters of Politicized Abjection

摘要: This essay examines the work of Judith Butler in relation to corporeality through an analysis Bodies that Matter: On Discursive Limits “Sex” and Butler's notion politicized abjection. Abjection is considered bodily materiality proposed as most promising path for a revamped corporeal politics. Through reading two novels, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love Barbara Gowdy's Mister Sandman, how abject body can function politically subversive. Throughout, analyses placing material political domain, argues she ultimately endorses potentially disruptive symbolic domain viable bodies. recasting matter within her theory shown redefining active agent rather than passive receptacle regulatory norms. The this under-theorized aspect work, illustrates abjection crucial philosophy gender performative.