Recently added articles from Subjectivity:
After Judith Butler: identities, who needs them?(Original Article)(Essay)
Dec 01, 2008; Segal, Lynne ... Abstract After Butler, identities and belongings, whether gendered or of any other hue, can never be securely pinned down. They must be seen as fundamentally contingent, stabilized only through the performative acts that attempt, unsteadily, to fix them as integral markings of ...
The Last Resistance.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; Frosh, Stephen ... The Last Resistance Jacqueline Rose London, Verso, 2007 256pp. Cover price: 16.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 978-1844671240 This is a particularly important book in a long series of significant works by Jacqueline Rose ....
Culture and subjectivity in neoliberal and postfeminist times.(Original article)(Essay)
Dec 01, 2008; Gill, Rosalind ... Abstract My aim in this paper is to think through a number of issues concerning the relationship between culture and subjectivity. It seems to me that exploring the relationship of changing forms of political organization, social relations and cultural practices to changing ...
Unintelligible subjects: making sense of gender, sexuality and subjectivity after butler.(Original Article)(Judith Butler)(Essay)
Dec 01, 2008; Mitchell, Kaye ... Abstract This article responds to Lynne Segal's claims in "After Judith Butler: Identities, Who Needs Them?", concerning the shifts within Butler's work and her turn to questions of ethics, politics and identity. After considering, briefly, some of the main (materialist) ...
Psychology as a social science.(Original Article)(Essay)
Dec 01, 2008; Rose, Nikolas ... Abstract This paper describes the social role of psychology as it took shape across the 20th century, and argues that it was, in large part, this social vocation that provided the conditions for psychology establishing itself as an academic discipline. The development of ...
From performativity to ecology: on Judith Butler and matters of survival.(Original Article)(Critical essay)
Dec 01, 2008; Bell, Vikki ... Abstract "Cultural survival" is a crucial phrase in Judith Butler's thought. In Gender Trouble it referred to an obligation whereby the subject is obliged to emerge within certain webs of power/ knowledge (the heterosexual matrix, here), such that the process of ...
