Verso, 2020. Butler kritisiert damit, wie Geschlecht und … While agreeing with Butler's argument that one's relationship to one's own past does not need to take the form of a cohesive narrative, I argue that her account could benefit from a closer engagement with phenomenological notions of time-experience. Exploring Judith Butler’s question on whose lives are not publicly mourned and Édouard Glissant’s critique on the “duality of self-perception,” this paper focuses on why the mass deaths in the Mediterranean have not caused a public outcry in Western Europe like the one that followed the terrorist attacks in Paris 2015. Queer Studies üben Kritik an festen Identitätszuschreibungen im Bereich der Sexualität und des Geschlechts. Leaving aside the uninterrogated and question-begging use of loaded terms such as “transphobia” and “trans rights”, the arguments at issue should stand or fall on their merits, not on their relation to the mainstream. When encouraged to comment on the online trolling that the novelist JK Rowling has faced in response to her public remarks on the issue, Prof Butler responded: “I am against online abuse of all kinds. Sabine Hark (* 7.August 1962 in Otzenhausen im Saarland) ist eine deutsche Soziologin mit Schwerpunkten in Geschlechterforschung, feministischer Erkenntnistheorie und -kritik und Queer Theorie.Sie lehrt als Professorin an der TU Berlin an dem von ihr geleiteten Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung. By way of a disclaimer, I don’t say this because I’m a member of some terf-cult, and I don’t mean it as a motivated intervention in the trans wars. If they understand themselves as belonging to that strain of radical feminism that opposes gender reassignment, why not call them radical feminists?”. “Thoughtful, reflective, theoretically and historically rich,” said another. Kulturwissenschaftliche Handlungsfähigkeit ›nach‹ Judith Butler. A fairer representation of the case would have been to say: “The feminist who holds such a view presumes […] that someone with a penis could identify as a woman for the purposes of entering such changing rooms and posing a threat to the women inside.”. (De)Konstruktion und Diskurs-Genealogie: Zur Position und Rezeption von Judith Butler. Here is something close to the etymological fallacy. Michael Csulich Abstract "Als Form der Macht ist die Subjektivation paradox." (2012). One writer I respect recently tweeted: “Honestly the best ‘argument’ I have in this is nothing to do with theoretical stances on the definition of gender (which we’re never going to all agree on anyway), it’s: ‘Ireland brought in gender self-ID in 2015 and the things you are afraid of have not happened’”. Butler, Judith, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection, Stanford/CA 1997 (dt. Englisch, 103 Seiten Prof. Dr. Lars Distelhorst, Dozent Sozialwissenschaft Sprechzeiten: nach Vereinbarung Email-Adresse: l.distelhorst@fhchp.de Publikationen Monographie . The Ethics and Politics of Temporality: Judith Butler, Embodiment, and Narrativity. I draw on Thomas Fuchs's discussion of the role of time experience in psychological pathologies, and also explore Denise Riley's description of mourning as a form of altered time experience. But “magisterial”? I compare Butler's understanding of selfhood, where the past constitutes the self but remains only partially knowable and aporetic, with approaches by 'narrativity' theorists, who argue that a cohesive narrative of the past is central to the notion of agency. Der Performanz-Begriff 4. Butler kritisiert damit, wie Geschlecht und … Ihre Themen bewegen sich zwischen Filmen, Fernsehen, Fleisch und Feminismus, zwischen Judith Butler und Reality-Formaten wie dem Bachelor. This is an irrelevant false equivalence. “I am not aware that terf is used as a slur. In der Kategorie #wesensagendingewollen wir dir Personen näher bringen, die wir für ihre kreativen Arbeiten, ihren Aktivismus und ihr Engagement bewundern und lieben. So I find it worrisome that suddenly the trans-exclusionary radical feminist position is understood as commonly accepted or even mainstream. Für uns in der Lesegruppe war „Gender Trouble“ mit seinen vielen philosophischen Bezügen nur schwer zu verstehen, ein richtiger Brocken, aber total faszinierend. By continuing to use our site you are agreeing to our cookies policy. So she is beyond intellectually shabby, she is traitorous to women’s rights and no sane person should respect her views. Improvisation im Rahmen des Zwangs. Let us also remember, though, the threats against trans people in places like Brazil, the harassment of trans people in the streets and on the job in places like Poland and Romania – or indeed right here in the US. Unter Mitarbeit von Sergej Seitz und Matthias Schmidt. Publikationsjahr 2021 Publikationstyp Monographien und Sammelwerke Zitation. I think this may be wrong. Our site uses cookies. The Ethics and Politics of Temporality: Judith Butler, Embodiment, and Narrativity. Rather than bringing some analytical clarity, she did no more than cloak crude rhetorical strategies in academic grandiloquence. Wien: facultas/UTB 2016. In G. Rae, & E. Ingala (Eds. Judith Butler, American academic whose theories of the performative nature of gender and sex were influential within Francocentric philosophy, cultural theory, queer theory, and some schools of philosophical feminism from the late 20th century. It therefore analyses normativity as a technique of power in a socio-cultural sense; and it further analyses the ideological construction of social groups through newspapers in a linguistic approach. Ansätze der Gender-Theorie von Judith Butler 3.1. You’d hope that someone who has thought as carefully about these issues as Judith Butler would have something cool and enlightening to say on the subject, wouldn’t you? Immediately Prof Butler pivots from the question asked to bring up the street harassment of trans people in Poland or Romania. To appeal to the mainstream is to fall into the fallacy called “argumentum ad populum”, and it’s something philosophers usually try not to do. Mit Judith Butler kann für meine Arbeit festgehalten werden, dass die reflexive Bezugnahme eines Menschen auf sich selbst in Abhängigkeit zum jeweils herrschenden Diskurs steht, aber trotzdem je individuell und nicht zur Gänze von ihm determiniert ist. She is pathologising or gaslighting those on the other side of the argument (using “fantasy” or its cognates four times in a paragraph). 1998 begann sie einen ersten Roman, der 2000 unter dem Titel Mein Lieb, mein Lieb, mein Leben bei Hoffmann und Campe erschien. Her best-known book is Gender Trouble (1990). Hartmann, J. At the end of the day she has sold out women, especially lesbians. Publikationen. (aus: »Undoing Gender«, 2004; freie Übersetzung: »Sehr männliche und weibliche Rollen sind nicht biologisch fest, sondern sozial konstruiert.«) (Englische Ausgabe) Feministische und queere Theorien sind mit ganz besonderen Figuren ausgestaltet: die »Sister« der zweiten Frauenbewegung, die »Cyborg« von Donna Haraway, das »Nomadic Subject« von Rosi Braidotti, die »New Mestiza« von Gloria Anzaldúa und die »Drag« von Judith Butler. 1. 0.0.0.1 Publikationen von Anna Babka und Co-Autor_innen oder Co_Herausgeber_innen im Faltershop ; 1 Monographien. Frames of Critique. Grundthesen aus dem gendertheoretischen Konzept von Judith Butler. This preoccupation with what’s mainstream and what’s marginal is just eccentric — especially coming from a theorist who has spent a lot of time, quite rightly, considering the stifling effects of normativity. Dieses Erklärvideo bespricht das von Judith Butler in den 1990ern entwickelte Konzept der “Heterosexuellen Matrix”. ), Historical traces and future pathways of poststructuralism: aesthetics, ethics, politics. London/New York: Verso 2020. Austin diskutiert Judith Butler einerseits die gegenwärtige Debatte der hate speech, um andererseits zu einer allgemeinen Theorie der Performativität des politischen Diskurses zu gelangen. And she is straw-manning their position. von Gerald Posselt unter Mitarbeit von Sergej Seitz. Mit ihrer Schrift Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter stieß sie 1990 die Diskussionen um die Queer-Theorie an. I think Prof Butler deserves our attention. The Ethics and Politics of Temporality: Judith Butler, Embodiment, and Narrativity, Energiesysteme und gesellschaftlicher Wandel, Foren: Wissenschaft, Politik, Gesellschaft. I think it is actually a fringe movement that is seeking to speak in the name of the mainstream, and that our responsibility is to refuse to let that happen.”. Seit Ende der 1980er Jahre finden Butlers Arbeiten zur feministischen Theorie internationale Aufmerksamkeit. Yesterday, Judith Butler was trending on Twitter, after she gave an email interview to the New Statesman focusing on her views on the ongoing controversy over trans rights and self-ID. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 28/ 1 (2017), S. 162-165. Übers. Prof Butler might legitimately argue that these concerns are theoretical and/or exaggerated, as many advocates for self-ID do. Contents. “I think we are living in anti-intellectual times,” Butler remarks later in the interview. von Sergej Seitz, Gerald Posselt, Julian Eidenberger, Isabella Grandl, Christian Haddad, Georgios Kolias, Nikolaus Lehner, Maria Schörgenhumer, Christina Schraml und Max Zirngast . Temporality has played a central role in poststructuralist thought, where the human experience of living in time has been understood as having profound ethical and political consequences. If you are right to identify the one with the other, then a feminist position opposing transphobia is a marginal position. Frauen- und Männerbilder in Judith H… queerer Aktivismus suchen nach kritischen gesellschaftlichen Praktiken, die, wie Judith Butler formuliert, die gesellschaftliche „heterosexuelle Matrix“ in Frage stellen und gleiche Rechte einfordern. If the cap fits, wear it” will not do. In closing, I seek to point towards possible connections and disconnections between 'personal' temporality and 'historical' time. If she wonders what they’d prefer to be called, why not ask them? Einer von Butlers signifikanten Beiträgen ist das performative Modell von Geschlecht. In N. Ricken & N. Balzer (Hrsg. Yesterday, Judith Butler was trending on Twitter, after she gave an email interview to the New Statesman focusing on her views on the ongoing controversy over trans rights and self-ID. Erkundungen in Theorie und Literatur. This seems to me to be nothing more sophisticated than garden-variety whataboutery. Google Scholar Von einem Zitat ausgehend zeigen wir dir, warum uns diese Person inspiriert. But then again, as q***r Theory is entirely predicated on advocating for eradicating the age of consent and encouraging children to be sexual, it’s not surprising that Butler would stand by that. Well, good. It won’t do to say that threats against some people are tolerable but against others are intolerable.”. Unterscheidung von „sex“ und „gender“ 3.2. Please click here to submit your pitch. I wonder what name self-declared feminists who wish to exclude trans women from women’s spaces would be called? This is a rich fantasy, and one that comes from powerful fears, but it does not describe a social reality. Butler, Judith/Laclau, Ernesto/Žižek, Slavoj: Kontingenz - Hegemonie - Universalität: Aktuelle Dialoge zur Linken. Most, as I understand it, are happy with the term “gender-critical feminists”. If the supposed grown-ups in the room are debating like this, no wonder the discussion is in such a state. 2020 Freiheit in der feministischen politischen Philosophie In: Zehetner, Bettina / Macke, Karin (Hg.innen): "Freiheit und Feminismen" Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag 2020 zum Download ... Audio-Datei: "Judith Butler in der Frauenberatung" Eine Sendung von Radio UFF In ihrem Aufsatz „Performative Akte und Geschlechterkonstitution. To say words to the effect of “well, they’re trying to exclude trans women from their toilets so why not call them exclusionary? So if we are going to object to harassment and threats, as we surely should, we should also make sure we have a large picture of where that is happening, who is most profoundly affected, and whether it is tolerated by those who should be opposing it. I don’t share the reflex sniggering at the opacity of some of her prose — sometimes complex ideas need a complex expression — and in this interview she was for the most part perfectly clear and conversational. Die Kategorien Mann und Frau – Anmerkungen zu kulturellen Geschlechter-Normen und Zwangsheterosexualität 3.3. Heute: Judith Butler. You said it, sister. The feminist who holds such a view presumes that the penis does define the person, and that anyone with a penis would identify as a woman for the purposes of entering such changing rooms and posing a threat to the women inside. Telling JK Rowling to choke on a dick doesn’t stop trans people being harassed in Romania; and finding the former objectionable doesn’t green light the latter. Judith Butler führt in der Einleitung der Aufsatzsammlung Die Macht der Geschlechternormen und die Grenzen des Menschlichen Geschlecht als „eine Praxis der Improvisation im Rahmen des Zwangs“ (Butler 2009: S. 9) ein. Wiesbaden: Springer. Besprechung von: Judith Butler: The Force of Nonviolence. und abonnieren Sie unseren alle zwei Monate erscheinenden Newsletter! ), Judith Butler: Pädagogische Lektüren (S. 149–178). You’d hope that someone who has thought as carefully about these issues as Judith Butler would have something cool and enlightening to say on the subject, wouldn’t you? Hg. 1.0.2 Anna Babka / Gerald Posselt: Gender und Dekonstruktion. Projektbeschreibung Selbstoptimierung als Subjektivierungsfigur in deutschsprachiger Literatur von 1970 bis heute (Arbeitstitel) . und eingel. Gaslighting ad-hominems, wilful obtuseness, straw-manning, deflection and whataboutery: this is quite the catalogue of intellectual shabbiness coming from a philosopher of Prof Butler’s standing. 2. Trans women are often discriminated against in men’s bathrooms, and their modes of self-identification are ways of describing a lived reality, one that cannot be captured or regulated by the fantasies brought to bear upon them. Die Frage nach den Möglichkeitsbedingungen verantwortlicher Wissensproduktion gewinnt gerade dann an Aktualität, wenn die Idee vom postsouveränen Sprechen ihren Platz im Diskurs der Verantwortung behauptet. It’s practically a snowclone of the formulation Jeremy Corbyn used to use when asked to make a full-throated condemnation of antisemitism: namely that he condemns all kinds of racism. 1.0.1 Anna Babka: Postcolonial-Queer. Wien: Turia&Kant 2019. Diese Spannung findet sich auch deutlich in der Theologie: Für die einen ist ihre Gendertheorie ebenso bedeutsam wie ihre Öffentlichkeitstheorie, ihre Einlassungen zur Verkörperung der Versammlung, ihr Subjektdenken und ihre Reflexionen über Anerkennung. Judith Butler dans le monde germanophone, Sociétés Contemporaines 71(3) (2008), 29-47. Queere Politik bzw. It brings together ideas of popular scholars such as Judith Butler, Jerome Bruner, Michael Foucault or Paul Baker. Das Subjekt der Unterwerfung, Frankfurt/M 2002) dies., Precarious Life: The Powers of Violence and Mourning, London 2004a (dt. My wager is that most feminists support trans rights and oppose all forms of transphobia. It seems to me that this is an area that admits of good faith disagreement, that there’s a noticeable lack of that in the public discourse, and that — even from so revered a figure as Judith Butler — we should call that lack out when we see it. “If you’re confused about trans people and trans rights, I can’t recommend this interview with Judith Butler enough,” said Owen Jones. Rigorous critique and affirmative feminism, Thoughtful, reflective, theoretically and historically rich. It assumes that the penis is the threat, or that any person who has a penis who identifies as a woman is engaging in a base, deceitful, and harmful form of disguise. Judith Butler 240044-1 UE Guided Reading (2019W) GR: Judith Butler, Anmerkungen zu einer performativen Theorie der Versammlung Montag 07.10.2019 18:00 - 21:00 Seminarraum SG1 Internationale Entwicklung, Sensengasse 3, Bauteil 1 EG.01 : Vorbesprechung - Perspektiven auf J. Butler … As a feminist I find Butler and q***r theory to be about promoting paraphilias as a human rights issue instead of something better suited to the DSM-V. Dieses Erklärvideo bespricht das von Judith Butler in den 1990ern entwickelte Konzept der “Heterosexuellen Matrix”. “Theoretically and historically rich?” Not on the strength of this interview. We welcome applications to contribute to UnHerd – please fill out the form below including examples of your previously published work. I would wager that Judith Butler’s original intellectual “shabbiness” might have started at the point she took up being a pedophile apologist. “Rigorous critique and affirmative feminism,” said one tweet. But it would require the hard work of arguing against it on material evidence, rather than dismissing it as hysteria or fantasy. Politische Essays, Frankfurt/M 2005) dies., Undoing Gender, London-New York 2004b (dt. Theorie, Methoden, Empirie. She’s then asked about JK Rowling’s stated concern that Self-ID could “throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman’, potentially putting women at risk of violence”: “If we look closely at the example that you characterise as ‘mainstream’ we can see that a domain of fantasy is at work, one which reflects more about the feminist who has such a fear than any actually existing situation in trans life. This would be a good-faith representation of the gender-critical position on single-sex spaces. Demnach werden die Kategorien männlich und weiblich als Wiederholung von Sprechakten verstanden, und nicht als natü… Liberation movements of the type Prof Butler might approve have, after all, been founded on “marginal” positions. In: Becker, Ruth/ Kortendiek, Beate (Hg. • Purtschert, Patricia: Diversity Management: Mehr Gewinn durch weniger Diskriminierung? Psyche der Macht. When challenged on the idea that “terf” might be understood as a slur, she responds with a high-handed run of rhetorical questions, or what sometimes gets called epiplexis. Von der Differenz im Umgang mit Differenzen, femina politica 1 (2007), 88-96. An Ethico-Political Bind. Sonstige Publikationen Judith Butler, Notes Torward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Rezension), L`Homme. Phänomenologie und feministische Theorie“ stellt Judith Butler [5] klare gedankliche Figuren auf, mit deren Hilfe sie erklärt, wie Geschlechterzugehörigkeit, ihrer Meinung nach, konstituiert wird. Gender-Studien in Bezug auf Literaturwissenschaft 3. Judith Butler fasziniert und verstört, ihr Werk ist gleichermaßen prägend, irritierend und herausfordernd.