Performativity
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- For this component of the course to work well it is very important that you arrive to class on time. Written assignments
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The Nature of Performativity 4 credits Fall 2014 Z412 Eszter Timár Z508/A Email: etimar@ceu.hu Description The course examines the concept of performativity, one of the important terms in our research of gender and sexuality. The course traces its development in philosophy, its introduction to feminist and queer inquiry, and examines its complicated relationship to the concept of nature: we will look at the development of the concept of performativity in speech act theory and deconstruction which enabled its productive work in Gender Studies exemplified by the work of Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick who look at ways in which performativity helps us better understand gendered embodiment and affect. We will also trace the queerness of performativity to discussions of femininity and theatricality. We will close with readings from new materialism to see how performativity helps reconfigure the concept of nature. Learning outcomes: Students will be familiar with the development and the genealogy of the concept of performativity in poststructuralist thought and its immediate connection to and implications in Gender Studies. The oral and written assignments help students to improve their skills to articulate their thoughts as academic questions and problems. Requirements Class participation: You are required to attend class consistently. Please come to class having read, and bringing with you, the assigned texts. Your active participation (listening as well as speaking) will be expected. Generally, the more active class participation is in a class, the more intellectually stimulating it becomes, so I hope that you will always share your thoughts during discussion. You may miss one class without formal documentation of illness or any other case of vis major. Please let me know in advance if you know you won’t come to class. Groupwork: At the beginning of each class, we’ll spend 15-20 minutes in groups. During this time you can discuss your impression of the texts and suggest questions for general class discussion. At the end of the class we will discuss a limited selection of these points and questions. For this component of the course to work well it is very important that you arrive to class on time. Written assignments: 4 reaction papers You have to write 4 reaction papers during the course (each reaction paper focusing on one text we read in the course). You have to submit a reaction paper before or on Tuesday of week 4, the 2nd before the end of week 7 (on a text discussed between Week 4 and 7), the 3rd and the 4th no later than the last meeting of the course (on a text we discussed between Week 8 and 12). Otherwise, you choose the texts you want to write on and you can submit them after we discussed them in class. Here are the guidelines for a reaction paper: Guidelines for reaction papers 1. What is a reaction paper? Reaction papers in this course are not only summaries of the texts. They focus on one problem or question that you identify in relation to and/or within the text. The reaction paper focuses on one text but is otherwise an open exercise. For ideas how you should construct a reaction paper, see the next section. The reader should be left at the end with an understanding of why you have chosen to focus your attention on this one problem or debate in particular: what is the relevance of this problem for you? You can supplement your analysis, if you wish, with other readings not featured in the course reader, but these cannot replace analysis of the readings from the course reader. Reaction papers should be around 800 words. Please include a title, your name, the name of the course, and the date of submission. 2. Guidelines for preparing your reaction paper You don’t have to do all this, but some of this may help. Read the text and list to yourself what to you seem like the keywords and concepts/problems. Try to summarize its argument with the help of these keywords and concepts. Practice writing a short summary: how much can you omit by still being able to say what the text is about and what it argues. When you are done, you can return to your list of keywords. Can you find one question or problem that: a) relates to these key words and concepts; b) produces a reaction in you (negative, positive, ambivalent, familiar, alien, boring, exciting, relevant, irrelevant). Write an intellectual argument that summarizes the problem or question. In this argument you should: - cite from the text to support yourself - explore the nature of your personal response to the problem: asking why it might seem irrelevant or relevant to you Make notes while reading that form a discussion with the text itself: - Yes, but I think that … - I see that, however… - I feel that this is important because… - It seems that there is something very tricky here but interesting… - In my opinion, this is out of date and irrelevant… - Good quote! Shows how…
Use your notes to make a rough draft of your reaction paper, which should be organized in the following way: • An introductory summary of the overall argument of the text (no longer than the 1/3 of the whole paper) • A body
• A conclusion. I. Introduction • include information such as author, title, of the text discussed • give a brief summary of the argument of the text (a short paragraph) in order to contextualize your focus • briefly identify your focus in this reaction paper II. Body
• exposition of your reaction and argument; for an effective academic prose, you can rely on the following academic writing tips: • make sure your paragraphs (including citations) provide support for your argument; • each paragraph should contain one idea; • the first sentence of each paragraph should support the thesis; • the final sentence of each paragraph should lead into the next paragraph. III. Conclusion The conclusion can be: • a restatement of what you said in your paper, • a comment that focuses your overall reaction, or • As short as 1-2 sentences !! Note: your conclusion should include no new information.
Derrida, Jacques. “Signature, Event, Context,” in Limited Inc, trans. Alan Bass (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1982), pp. 1-23. Week 3: Tuesday Judith Butler: “On Linguistic Vulnerability,” in Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (New York and London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 1-43. Thursday Judith Butler: “Introduction” in Bodies That Matter (New York and London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 1-24. Week 4: Tuesday Butler continued Thursday Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: “Introduction” in Performativity and Performance, eds. Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (New York and London: Routledge 1995), pp. 1-18; Henry Abelove: “From Thoreau to Queer Politics” in Deep Gossip (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis and London, 2003), pp. 29-42. Week 5: Tuesday David Halperin.: “The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens,” in One Hundred Years of Homosexulity and Other Essays on Greek Love (New York: Routledge, 1990), pp. 88-113 Jeffrey Weeks: “Inverts, Perverts, and Mary-Anns: Male Prostitution and the Regulation of Homosexuality in England in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century,” in Against Nature: Essays on History, Sexuality, and Identity, (London: Rivers Oram Press, 1991), pp. 46-68. Thursday Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Excerpt from Letter to M. d’Alembert on the Theatre, trans. Allan Bloom (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968). Pp. 75-93. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Excerpts from The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 200-202, 213-223, 227-228. Week 6: Tuesday David Marshall: “Rousseau and the State of Theater,” in The Surprising Effects of Sympathy: Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), pp. 135-178. Thursday Marshall continued Week 7 Tuesday Sophie Carter: “'This Female Proteus': Representing Prostitution and Masquerade in Eighteenth-Century English Popular Print Culture,” Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1999, pp. 57-79. Joan Rivière: “Womanliness as Masquerade,” in Formations of Fantasy, eds, Victor Burgin et.al., (London: Methuen, 1986), pp. 35-45. Recommended: Stephen Heath, “Joan Rivière and the Masquerade,” in Formations of Fantasy, eds, Victor Burgin et.al., (London: Methuen, 1986), pp. 45-61. Thursday Jennifer Biddle: “Shame,” Australian Feminist Studies, 12:26, 1997, pp. 227-239. Week 8: Tuesday Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick: “Shame, Theatricality, and Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel,” in Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003), pp. 35-67. Thursday Sedgwick continued José Esteban Munoz: “Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism”in Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York and London: New York University Press, 2009), pp. 19-33. Week 9: Tuesday Jane C. Desmond: “Performing ‘Nature’: Shamu at Sea-World” in Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality, eds. Sue-Ellen Case et. al. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,1995), pp. 217-236; Timothy Morton: “Queer Ecology,” PMLA (March, 2010), 1–19. Thursday Elizabeth Grosz: “Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations for a Possible Alliance” in Material Feminisms, eds. Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008), pp. 23-52. Week 10: Tuesday Karen Barad: “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter,” Signs, vol. 28, no. 3, 801-831. Thursday Barad continued Vicky Kirby: “(Con)Founding “the Human,” in Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011), pp. 89-111. Week 11: Tuesday Jane Bennett: “A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism,” in New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, eds. Diana Coole and Samantha Frost (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010), 47-70. Stacy Alaimo: “Trans-corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature,” in Material Feminisms, eds. Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008), 337-265. Thursday Sara Ahmed: “Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the ‘New Materialism,’” European Journal of Women's Studies, 2008, 15, pp. 23-39. Noella Davis: “New Materialism and Feminism’s Anti-Biologism: A Response to Sara Ahmed,” European Journal of Women's Studies, 2009, 16, pp. 67-80. Recommended: Iris van der Tuin: “Deflationary Logic: Response to Sara Ahmed's ‘Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the »New Materialism«’” European Journal of Women's Studies, 2008, 15, pp. 411-416. Week 12: Tuesday Elizabeth A. Wilson “Ingesting Placebo,” Australian Feminist Studies 23, 2008 : 31-42
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