CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Skerjanec, Blaz |
|---|---|
| Title | THE POLITICAL PROMISE OF DISIDENTIFICATION: ASSEMBLING BUTLER AND DELEUZE&GUATTARI |
| Summary | The following thesis explores the possibilities of assembling the thoughts of Judith Butler, on the one hand, and Deleuze and Guattari, on the other, through an analysis of political considerations of disidentification that points towards the shared dedication of the two philosophies to finding possibilities of thinking change and transformation. While Butler finds the possibility of change within the quasi-transcendental principle of discursive citationality, a Deleuzo-Guattarian perspective searches for the possibilities of change in an immanent reading of pre-individual differentiating matter/affects. In order to think these two (political) thoughts together, the thesis engages with assemblage theory as an analytical appropriation of heterogeneous logics that are spelled out as a constant dynamic movement between a (quasi-)transcendental logics (of the signifier) and an immanent logics (of matter and affects). In political terms, the two logics of assemblage sketch out two forms of (political) individuation: negative discursive subjections/subjectifications and positive affective individuations-haecceity where each presents the limit of the other. The assembled reading is centered on highlighting the oscillations, the tensions between the two poles of assemblage. It shows how Butler’s deconstructive performativity with its negatively charged performative politics of resignification draws out the discursive limits of Deleuzo-Guattarian affirmative politics of becoming, while Deleuzo-Guattarian becoming opens Butler’s performativity to ontological considerations of thinking matter and affects in positive terms. In this sense, the statement, at the core of the thesis, is that in tracing out a political line of thinking about disdentification Butler is becoming Deleuzo-Guattarian and Delueze and Guattari are becoming Butlerian. |
| Supervisor | Andrew Ryder |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/skerjanec_blaz.pdf |
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