For one of my social work classes, we recently read an article by Viktoria Bergschmidt which discussed the dangers of heroin dependency on a functioning society. Bergschmidt used the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to explain how discursive constructions of pleasure, power, and danger contributed to notions of morality regarding the use of [...]
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Heroin and Homosexuality: Subject Creation and Exclusion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Discursive Construction, Heroin, Homosexuality, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Pleasure on March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Experience” Identity Readings
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged identity, Joan Scott, Judith Butler, subjectivity on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, I read the article “Gender Trouble” by Judith Butler, and I couldn’t help but recognize a strong correlation to Joan W. Scott’s “Experience.” Along with their co-authorship of Feminists Theorize the Political, these authors share a similar philosophy regarding subjective identity, acknowledging systems of power which simultaneously produce the subjects they represent; (Scott claims [...]
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