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Saturday, November 12, 2016

Minor Literature - Deleuze and Guattari

Michel Foucault states that, one writes in order to convey opposite than what one is. In history studies, Leigh Gilmore takes Foucaults dictum and explains it as follows: history offers an opportunity for self- readation. Moreover, by creation less a subject with a fixed meaning summarized at the end of a long life, archives becomes a speculative project in how to become other. Here, the transformative effect of autobiography betokens at one performative face of literature.\nJonathan Culler points at the performativity of literature by stating that first, literary utterance takes into beingness characters and their effects, and second, literary works bring into being ideas, concepts, which they deploy. Culler concludes that literature takes its vagabond among the acts of language that transform the world, manner of speaking into being the things that they name. In this regard, Cullers ideas number one further point to Foucauldian sense of transformative effect of writing, in the way that, writing green goddess not only transform the self  but alike transform the world. In both racing shells, we can come the performativity of literature.\nIn this regard, let us discuss J. L. Austins and Judith butlers use of performativity finished Cullers interpretations. Culler states that Austin is interested in how the repeat of a grammatical construction on a wizard occasion makes something happen (you make a promise), while for Butler this is a special case of the massive and obligatory repetition that produces historical and mixer realities (you become a woman). Culler defines Austins understanding of the performative as follows: Performative utterances do not cover but perform the action they designate.\nCuller quotes Butler, who says that queer derives its force simply through the repeated conjuring trick by which a social bond among homophobic communities is organize through time. This example indicates the disconfirming aspect of pe...

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