Thanks for your interest. Absolutely, there is a new form of social subjectivity in postmodernity. Family ties are further diminished, etc. Some theorists (Foucault, Baudrillard, Judith Butler) assume that in postmodern societies one can choose one's "identity" by consuming certain products/styles or performing certain behaviors. Of course, the most enthusiastic proponents of the postmodern "choice" of identity evade the material constraints on this choice, for most people.
Thank you so much for this video! Question: Is there a new form of social subjectivity that comes with Post-Modernity? Has kinship and the relationship between the individual and society changed in relevant ways? What are the thoughts of social theorists? These videos a great! Please post more, they are well received.
I take your point... my earlier response was a bit reductive. But, to the extent that the concept of performativity is embraced as a way to evade the constraints of hegemonic disciplinary regimes and frames of intelligibility without acknowledging the limitations of those constraints, performativity gets recuperated as consumerism-masquerading-as-individual agency.
I think the most serious problem with "performativity as agency" is that it is so conveniently coopted as "consumption as agency" (or constitutive of subjectivity. I think Jean Baudrillard succumbs to this view much more enthusiastically than Butler.
Thanks for your interest. Absolutely, there is a new form of social subjectivity in postmodernity. Family ties are further diminished, etc. Some theorists (Foucault, Baudrillard, Judith Butler) assume that in postmodern societies one can choose one's "identity" by consuming certain products/styles or performing certain behaviors. Of course, the most enthusiastic proponents of the postmodern "choice" of identity evade the material constraints on this choice, for most people.
Thank you so much for this video!
Question: Is there a new form of social subjectivity that comes with Post-Modernity? Has kinship and the relationship between the individual and society changed in relevant ways? What are the thoughts of social theorists?
These videos a great! Please post more, they are well received.
I take your point... my earlier response was a bit reductive. But, to the extent that the concept of performativity is embraced as a way to evade the constraints of hegemonic disciplinary regimes and frames of intelligibility without acknowledging the limitations of those constraints, performativity gets recuperated as consumerism-masquerading-as-individual agency.
nice work and nice soundtrack!
I think the most serious problem with "performativity as agency" is that it is so conveniently coopted as "consumption as agency" (or constitutive of subjectivity. I think Jean Baudrillard succumbs to this view much more enthusiastically than Butler.
@marin677a Wouldn't an 100% individual society lead to anarchy and chaos?
muchas gracias