CS203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Construction Of Gender, Panopticism, Microanalysis
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3 dimensions of identity identity as subjectivity. Subject centred identity is sameness inter-subjective identity as solidarity. Identity is not a fixed or finalized state internal to the individual i. e. you never step in the same part of the stream twice, the water keeps moving and so do we. It is always constituted in relation to others both in terms of sameness and difference. Identity has potential to unite but also to divide. Types of identity that we promote tend to be more exclusive and tolerant of otherness. Identity has the potential to unite but also divide. We are considering the subject as that which is yet to be determined in discourse. Butle(cid:396)(cid:859)s app(cid:396)oa(cid:272)h to su(cid:271)je(cid:272)tifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374) depa(cid:396)ts f(cid:396)o(cid:373) a(cid:374) althusse(cid:396)ia(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:1005)97(cid:1006)(cid:895) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) Rather than an interpellation whereby the subject (mis)recognizes herself in the hailing of the ideology. Instead stresses the performative in relation to the representational.
