Agency, Signification, and Temporality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8097022 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Clare (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 50-62 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01057.x |
| OpenAlex | W2153806363 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 18 |
This paper examines the temporality of agency in Judith Butler's and Saba Mahmood's writing. I argue that Mahmood moves away from a performative understanding of agency, which focuses on relations of signification, to a corporeal understanding, which focuses on desire and sensation. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's reading of Henri Bergson, I show how this move involves a changed model of becoming: whereas Butler imagines movement as a series of discontinuous beings, in Mahmood's case, we get an understanding of becoming
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Close reading · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Performative utterance · Reading (process · Sociology · Subjectivity · Temporality · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
Locating agency with Judith Butler’s theory of performativity
Refugees' Agency
Agency in the Ricean Vampire's Compulsion to Feed
Raucous feminisms in neoliberal times
Skirting heaven, skirting hell’
Social Dynamics, Gendered Subjectivities, and Surreptitious Acts of Agency From Women to Face Intimate Partner Violence in a Rural Community of Peru
Agency in a quake in time
From Opposition to Creativity
Mapping Concepts of Agency in Educational Contexts
The Professor of Parody
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures
Undoing Gender
‘Bodies that Matter’
Politics of Piety
Terrorist Assemblages
Gender Trouble
A politics of imperceptibility
From Radical Representations to Corporeal Becomings
Parables for the Virtual
Time Travels
Terrorist Assemblages
Touching Feeling
Feeling Brown
The Psychic Life of Power
| Citations per year | 0.9 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |