CGS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: B-Boying, Transphobia, Ridicule
18 Jul 2018
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Cgs 105 lecture 5 realness, hailing, and spectatorship. Keepin" it real: all performances have a stage. Invisible line between the performer and the audience (cid:862)all the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld(cid:859)s a stage(cid:863: performance: on a stage, performativity: all the sites in the world where performance is taking place but there is no stage. Subject: lawful form of obedience exerted when one is called out: through interpellation (hailing) and subject formation (grids of intelligibility) Interpellation: how the presence/absence of a sovereign power has been replaced by a discursive form of power that gives authority to certain sites of hegemony: recognizing oneself as a subject. Subject as subjected status: social recognition contingent upon subjectivity as an effect of (discursive) forms of power: recognizing a hail is a form of power that is subjecting people. Sexual difference is not a simple function of material difference between bodies. Sexual difference is a process in which bodies materialize their sex over time by reiterating social norms.
