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SUMMARY:Vortrag von Bonnie Honig: »›We are gathered here today‹ – Pe
 rformativity and Contagion from Eve Sedgwick and J.L. Austin to Hortense S
 pillers and Patricia Williams«
DESCRIPTION:In Euripides’ Bacchae\, the 2015 film The Fits\, and John Raw
 ls’ A Theory of Justice (1970)\, refusal is contagious. But each represe
 nts a different model of contagion. In the Bacchae\, refusal breaks out al
 l-at-once\; in The Fits\, a contagion passes through a community in a sequ
 ence\, which allows it to mutate as it travels\; and in A Theory of Justic
 e\, refusal is a contagion that turns out to be isolable. In each of these
  examples\, efforts to contain the contagion are made via »deformatives«
 \, Eve Sedgwick’s term for Austinian performative utterances that are\, 
 she says\, »uniquely contagious«. Might that contagion be reworked for d
 emocratic theory? Deformatives shame or stigmatize gender queerness which\
 , Sedgwick argues\, is marginalized by Austin’s focus on the »I do« of
  the straight couple as an exemplary performative in How To Do Things with
  Words. I read Austin differently\, noting his repeated and neglected turn
  not just to the couple but also to the crowd\, which is gathered and disp
 ersed by a bull that may be about to charge. This is the first of three co
 unterexamples explored here that may summon a democratic theory of contagi
 on: each isolates\, mutates or emancipates a contagion.\nThe lecture is pa
 rt of the workshop »Resistibility\, Interruption\, Refusal. Agonistic Sub
 jectivity and Feminist Politics«. If you want to attend the workshop\, pl
 ease register until January 13th (trautmann@em.uni-frankfurt.de). \nThe le
 cture will also be streamed on YouTube.
URL:https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/vortrag-von-bonnie-honig-we
 -are-gathered-here-today-performativity-and-contagion-from-eve-sedgwick-an
 d-j-l-austin-to-hortense-spillers-and-patricia-williams.html
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LOCATION:Institut für Sozialforschung
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