Bodily Performativity: Enacting Norms

Bodily Performativity: Enacting Norms. Wehrle, M.
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The following chapter investigates the extent to which not only linguistic acts, but embodied experience and action itself must be accounted for as “performative.” In doing so, I will take Judith Butler’s account of performativity as a starting point and complement it with a phenomenological account of embodied experience. I will critically engage with the problem of how norms “work upon bodies” and how bodies themselves “work on” these norms to change and even create new ones. I will argue that the need for repetition and iteration of norms, which is at the heart of Butler’s account of performativity, presupposes bodily subjects who do the repeating, i.e. enact those very norms that act upon them. In this respect, bodily performativity has a “dual dimension:” it preserves and stabilizes prevailing social norms, plus, it changes these norms through their enactment. Therefore, we give norms a reality by enacting them, but also have the possibility to transcend them.

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