(Re)Cognising the Body : Performativity, Embodiment and Abject Selves in Buffy The Vampire Slayer

This paper examines the relationship between subjectivity, identity coherence and embodiment in the context of space by analysing character development and characterisation in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Character transformation in Buffy goes beyond the traditional question of t...

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Autor principal: Cover, Rob
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Publicado: Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas. Departamento de Etica, Política y Tecnología
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Buffy the Cazavampiros
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Cuerpo
Acceso en línea:http://www.aesthethika.org/IMG/pdf/Coverv2n1.pdf
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spelling I28-R145-2_1_2005-2_1_6_html2024-08-16 Buffy the Cazavampiros Subjetividad Cuerpo eng (Re)Cognising the Body : Performativity, Embodiment and Abject Selves in Buffy The Vampire Slayer info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo artículo Cover, Rob 2344-9241 Aesthethika. Revista internacional de estudio e investigación interdisciplinaria sobre subjetividad, política y arte, vol. 2 no. 1 http://www.aesthethika.org/IMG/pdf/Coverv2n1.pdf Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas. Departamento de Etica, Política y Tecnología This paper examines the relationship between subjectivity, identity coherence and embodiment in the context of space by analysing character development and characterisation in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Character transformation in Buffy goes beyond the traditional question of the abjectively transformed vampire body, and instead focuses on the major characters in terms of their embodied subjecthood and the question of subjectivity as a response to the cultural imperative of coherence, intelligibility and recognisability. As characters, Buffy and her friends come into physical contact with demons, vampires, monsters and creatures that are culturally-coded abject not by virtue of a good/evil or subject/abject dichotomy, but through their establishment in the narrative as that which puts into question the fantasy of coherent bodies and coherent subjectivity. I consider here how Butler’s theories of subjective performativity and bodily materialisation can be figured within a cultural ‘crisis of the subject’ by showing that performativity, as a citation of the signifier or category or norm as ‘co-ordinate’ of selfhood, is conditioned not only by the cultural imperative to articulate a coherent, normalised and regimented body but in distinction from the cultural construction of the abject, or that which threatens coherent subjectivity. https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=aest&d=2_1_2005-2_1_6_html
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Subjetividad
Cuerpo
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Cover, Rob
(Re)Cognising the Body : Performativity, Embodiment and Abject Selves in Buffy The Vampire Slayer
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description This paper examines the relationship between subjectivity, identity coherence and embodiment in the context of space by analysing character development and characterisation in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Character transformation in Buffy goes beyond the traditional question of the abjectively transformed vampire body, and instead focuses on the major characters in terms of their embodied subjecthood and the question of subjectivity as a response to the cultural imperative of coherence, intelligibility and recognisability. As characters, Buffy and her friends come into physical contact with demons, vampires, monsters and creatures that are culturally-coded abject not by virtue of a good/evil or subject/abject dichotomy, but through their establishment in the narrative as that which puts into question the fantasy of coherent bodies and coherent subjectivity. I consider here how Butler’s theories of subjective performativity and bodily materialisation can be figured within a cultural ‘crisis of the subject’ by showing that performativity, as a citation of the signifier or category or norm as ‘co-ordinate’ of selfhood, is conditioned not only by the cultural imperative to articulate a coherent, normalised and regimented body but in distinction from the cultural construction of the abject, or that which threatens coherent subjectivity.
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