The lesbian body as a body without organs. Materiality and metaphor of a borderland
The proposal of this writing is to inquire into the possibility/potentiality of the lesbian body as a "body without organs" (Deleuze and Guattari, 2004) as materiality and metaphor, with the aim of "fantasizing modes of existence with the residues of the heteropatriarchal semiotic mac...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/etcetera/article/view/33905 |
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| Sumario: | The proposal of this writing is to inquire into the possibility/potentiality of the lesbian body as a "body without organs" (Deleuze and Guattari, 2004) as materiality and metaphor, with the aim of "fantasizing modes of existence with the residues of the heteropatriarchal semiotic machine that governs words and lives" (flores, 2019: 35), and "to also set the political imagination to wander beyond what is delimited by the reason of the [LGTTBIQ+] agendas of consensus and demands to the State" (Tron and Herczeg in Biblioteca Pública General San Martín, 2021), stressing the proliferation of theoretical positions that deny any existence other than that of the heterocissexual male/female binomial. To account for this, we will first genealogically outline a form of approach to the body in philosophical modernity, understanding it as a historical legacy of Occident, and some political uses of such understanding, in order to map from it how it is possible to make oneself a "body without organs". Subsequently, we will consider our analysis of the category "bodily reasoning" (Oyěwùmí, 2017) and an approach to Monique Wittig's heterosexual thought, in order to delve into how colonial modernity dichotomizes body and establishes, through sexualization, power relations. This considering, in turn, the concept of "categorial separation" (Lugones, 2008) and thinking, through the concept of borderlands (Anzaldúa, 2016), how these bodies are articulated in the materiality-metaphor relationship. |
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