Monthly Archives for October 2012
Rejoicing the Crisis in the Name
Rejoicing the Crisis in the Name Judith Butler’s notion that language is performative and therefore can be used as a tool to subvert dominant discourse is very appealing. For Butler, gender and race are social constructs that can be deconstructed … Continue reading Continue reading
Rejoicing the Crisis in the Name
Rejoicing the Crisis in the Name Judith Butler’s notion that language is performative and therefore can be used as a tool to subvert dominant discourse is very appealing. For Butler, gender and race are social constructs that can be deconstructed … Continue reading Continue reading
The House of hooks
I felt a little peeved at hooks this time around. I wonder if the problem is that we have both aged. How vogue and gays are seen has evolved since the early 90s. Not that there are no remnants of … Continue reading Continue reading
Impressions of “Gender is Burning” by Butler
Ambivalence in gender definition or identification is an important concept in Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion by Judith Butler. To Butler, the drag phenomenon, such as portrayed in the movie Paris is Burning, embeds subversion as well … Continue reading Continue reading
Gender Is Burning–Judith Butler
First, from the example of Althusser’s interpellation,we know subjects could be attained a certain order of social existence because of the force of the law, an indifferent being could be transferred to the discursive or social domain. Butler argues there persists … Continue reading Continue reading
Gender Is Burning–Judith Butler
First, from the example of Althusser’s interpellation,we know subjects could be attained a certain order of social existence because of the force of the law, an indifferent being could be transferred to the discursive or social domain. Butler argues there persists … Continue reading Continue reading
Is Paris Burning?–bell hooks
As one of the most influential cultural works, Paris Is Burning chronicles the ball culture of New York City at the time – the flamboyant gay and trans-gendered party scene peopled largely by young, poor and dispossessed blacks and Latinos. … Continue reading Continue reading
Is Paris Burning?–bell hooks
As one of the most influential cultural works, Paris Is Burning chronicles the ball culture of New York City at the time – the flamboyant gay and trans-gendered party scene peopled largely by young, poor and dispossessed blacks and Latinos. … Continue reading Continue reading
Paris is Burning- bell hooks and Judith Butler
Is Paris Burning? – bell hooks In Is Paris Burning? bell hooks harshly criticizes the documentary Paris is Burning as she perceives it creates a sensation of spectacle around a matter she considers as serious and worrisome. First, hooks seems to fixate on this idea of drag as ridiculing women and perpetuating a fetishistic view of […] Continue reading
Impressions on ”Is Paris Burning?” by Bell Hooks
I don’t know if Paris is burning, but Bell Hooks is sure on fire! In Is Paris Burning?, she adopts a recriminative tone that, I believe, does not help her to analyse things clearly. Bell Hooks argues that gay men … Continue reading Continue reading
