Nicola Moffat
Biographic Data
| ID | 6114066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Moffat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Moffat |
| SIGNATURE | MOFFAT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Monstrous Promises
Promises are an example of what linguist JL Austin described as performative acts, in that their very utterance allows the act of promising to take place. Austin formed his theory of performative speech acts as a way in which to make fully predictable the effects of certain speech acts, promises amongst them. Using Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, this article demonstrates the impossibility of predicting the effects of promises, explaining that Austi…
Rape and the (Animal) Other
This article proposes a new theoretical category, the “monstrative,” which is used both as a way to explain the performative acts that produce a monster and as a point of departure for feminist ontologies seeking a more positive model of identity formation. As such, I contrast monstrative acts, the theory of which is based on Judith Butler’s understanding of performativity, with a positive reading of Deleuzean becoming, which in turn is based on …
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Monstrous Promises
Promises are an example of what linguist JL Austin described as performative acts, in that their very utterance allows the act of promising to take place. Austin formed his theory of performative speech acts as a way in which to make fully predictable the effects of certain speech acts, promises amongst them. Using Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, this article demonstrates the impossibility of predicting the effects of promises, explaining that Austi…
Rape and the (Animal) Other
This article proposes a new theoretical category, the “monstrative,” which is used both as a way to explain the performative acts that produce a monster and as a point of departure for feminist ontologies seeking a more positive model of identity formation. As such, I contrast monstrative acts, the theory of which is based on Judith Butler’s understanding of performativity, with a positive reading of Deleuzean becoming, which in turn is based on …
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Performative utterance (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)