Judith Butler and the Facets of “Vulnerability”: the Power of “Agency” in the Artistic Activism of Mujeres Creando
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https://doi.org/10.3989/Isegoria.2018.058.12Keywords:
Judith Butler, Vulnerability, Precarity, Frames, Agency, Performativity, Art, Activism, Mujeres CreandoAbstract
The present paper adresses the objective of elucidating the phenomenological mechanisms which, according to the celebrated queer theory author Judith Butler, operate within performative politics. In this connection, this paper analyses the power of agency of minor identities as a resistance force against what Butler calls frames and its politic-ontological regularisation. Such biopolitical potential is fostered by the vulnerability and precarity of abject bodies. In this context, it will be considered the case of Bolivian anarcha-feminist group Mujeres Creando, which generates powerful alternatives in order to reactivate agency by means of artistic practices.
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