Dear Tina,
Gender as performance? Yes, of course and I can perform whichever gender
you'd like as required just as I can sing hymns and recite the Lordıs
prayer. First the milkmaid was a milkmaid then she thought she was
inauthentic and then she was a milkmaid.
Emily was on about something else - she is inviting us to be intimate -
one consciousness with another.
If we want to gender such an invitation we might want to allow that such a
determination of gender would be arbitrary
and external to any actual intimate relationship which is based on
consciousness of the other as the other that constitutes my consciousness
in that moment of consciousness. I find my consciousness sharing.
Do we want to come to the understandings that Zen Buddhism points to or do
we want to perform the criticıs role in relation to the structuring of
social relationship for the purpose of what? Reforming the performing?
Rebalancing the powers that arise from holding oneself as a positive
moment at a distance to the other? (He was acting the master which then
made me the student?) Just what are the ideologies of social engineering
that base themselves on interpretations of relations at a distance to
those relations?
When I look into the eyes of an infant (pre-language) they often look back
as one consciousness with another. It freaks their parents out no end. To
then move on from this event and say I am performing as a hetro-normative,
western white male in a dominant pose, adult to child, is absurd.
Cheers
keith
On 30/06/2016, 12:43 PM, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD
studies and related research in Design on behalf of Teena Clerke"
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>Dear Keith,it depends on how you interpret gender, which I do as a
>performance (see Judith Butler), rather than an individual attribute
>that one 'has'. That is, one performs (enacts) gender through
>behaviour, appearance, actions and language. This allows us to
>separate sex (based on anatomy) from sex category and gender, which is
>culturally and socially constituted and reproduced through
>performance. Multiple masculinities and femininities are performed on
>a daily basis.
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