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One theme for today's class is "besides." Here are some of my thoughts, as inspired by the readings:
BESIDE/S:
- next to, in proximity to, touching others, in relation to others (interrelational Chávez, 4)
- bodies touching--violence and care (Butler, 21/23)
- keeping vigil, being/doing for others, in solidarity with others (Muñoz, 197)
- in addition to, another perspective, another direction, always more than "I" (Butler, 32)
- ecstatic, outside of oneself (but not fully outside of oneself), torn from self/bound to others/undone by others/implicated in lives of others (Butler, 20)
- overwhelmed with emotion: grief, passion, anger, fear, panic
- undone by grief
- result of extreme event, causing person to realize vulnerability/precariousness (Chávez, 2)
- retaliation or impetus to resist (Chávez, 2)
- a space of im/possibility
- a counterpublic space of radical intervention (Muñoz, 198-201) that "produce material possibilities" for subversion/resistance (Chávez, 2)
- a space of community, a "we" that is fashioned through "undoneness," refusals to fully identify, inability to fit, disidentification (Muñoz, 202/Butler, 20)
- relationship to/with theories, mainstream representations/ideologies, other parts of self/community
- one of many relationships, positions
- tactics for survival, strategies for imagining new worlds/ways of being
- failed interpellation: Can a self or a personality be crafted without proper identifications (Muñoz, 7)?
- to identify with and against
- to disidentify, to resignify, to reformulate theories/theorists for our own purposes
- to suspend or avoid judgment, not about what is good or bad, but what is "useful" (word choice?) or valuable
- not a "good subject" or a "bad subject" but a subject who disidentifies, who doesn't fully identify (good) or fully (reject), but reworks (disidentify) (Muñoz, 11-12)
- heard by something outside of the interpellation and its regulatory power...something besides the call to be recognized/identify/identified (Muñoz, 21)
- another direction: using codes differently, reworking them, creating possibilities that are impossible, imaging worlds that are unimaginable (Muñoz, 31)
- don't fit easily or comfortably in any identity or "discourse of minority subjectivity" (Muñoz, 32)
A METHOD...ETHICAL FRAMEWORK...ETHOS (ways of being/doing)
How do we apply this method/framework/ethos to our critical exploration of ethics?
How can we be beside/s Kant, Levinas, a feminist ethics of care, bioethics?
What does it mean to be beside the theories we employ?
To place our academic self/selves beside our "personal" selves (whatever that means)?