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ベルサーニの暴力的ケア／ サエボーグの横滑りする身体
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ベルサーニの暴力的ケア／ サエボーグの横滑りする身体
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| JaLC DOI | info:doi/10.34577/00005300 |
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| アイテムタイプ | 紀要論文 / Departmental Bulletin Paper |
| 言語 | 日本語 |
| キーワード |
Leo Bersani, Saeborg, biopolitics, masochism, the ethics of care |
| 著者 |
長尾 優希
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| 著者別名 |
NAGAO Yuki
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| 抄録 |
This essay aims to extend Leo Bersani’s thought over the ethics of care by
analyzing a series of works by a Japanese installation and performance artist Saeborg. Through outlining a juxtaposition of the artist and theorist, I will demonstrate how both seek a nonviolent relationality with others, contrary to the general assumption of Bersani as a thinker of solipsistic and masochistic self-shattering. In the first section, I deal with the violent representations of Saeborg from the vantage point of Marxist feminism and also of biopolitics, with particular attention to the animal figure. In her performance of slaughter, it is with rubber suits that female performers disguise themselves, before rendering visible the brew of violence of capitalism/patriarchy/biopolitics befallen on women equated with livestock. It is, nonetheless, impossible to go unmarked that from the very latex suits, Saeborg draws out the affirmative implication of a self determined body as well. This ostensible incongruity should define the theoretical limit of violent representation, which calls upon the eroticism that rubber arouses. In order to settle the aforementioned contradiction, in the second section I turn my eyes to a shift in Leo Bersani’s thought towards what is called sameness: a concept Bersani develops from his self-shattering with which a subject experiences violence with masochistic jouissance. While Bersanian sameness radically demolishes socially constructed self-other boundaries, his consistent emphasis on individuality appears not to obliterate them altogether; on the one hand, the Bersanian subject is masochistically assimilated into the world, and yet, on the other hand, he insists on a thoroughgoing enclosure of the individual. Regarding the movement between these scattered homogeneities as “sliding,” this paper connects the Bersanian concept of sameness to Saeborg’s fungible bodies of rubber suits, which bring about the masochistic eroticism of unbecoming human and submerging under anonymity whilst shutting out the performers to evacuate them from the fascist-like ontological wholeness that sameness at times leads to. In the third section, I detail the latent complicity between the ethics of care and biopolitics to sketch another form of care Bersani and Saeborg both deliver, by referring to a prerequisite of the ethics of care: subjectification. Bersani’s view on Jean Laplanche’s concept of the enigmatic signifier demonstrates that subjectification prepares the self-other difference, from which, according to Bersanian and Saeborg, violence derives. This paper, then, sets Saeborg against the “sliding,” which designates a perpetual oscillation between two formations of Bersanian masochism: violent self-shattering and non-violent sameness, with Bersani and Saeborg suggesting the latter one as an alternative form of care through the image of “envelopment.” By relinquishing the attributed identity, an essential dispositif for biopolitics, to achieve sameness where each singularity cares for themselves that is no more distinct than the other singularity, I conclude that Saeborg, in union with Bersani, dreams of an exit out of the complex of capitalism, patriarchy and biopolitics, though this care does not defy the necessary link to pleasurable violence. |
| 雑誌名 | Gender and Sexuality |
| 号 | 18 |
| ページ | 51 - 76 |
| 発行年 | 2023-03-31 |
| 出版者 |
国際基督教大学ジェンダー研究センター
Center for Gender Studies, International Chrisitian University |
| ISSN |
1880-4764
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