Agonistic Mourning by Athanasiou Athena;

Author:Athanasiou, Athena;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Political Languages of Responsiveness and the Disquiet of Silence

When the body ‘speaks’ politically, it is not only in vocal or written language. (Judith Butler 2011)

[T]hose historically excluded from liberal personhood have proceeded against the spectrum of silences limning the universal claims of humanist discourse for the past several centuries. Jews, immigrants, women, people of color, homosexuals, the unpropertied: all have pressed themselves into civic belonging not simply through asserting their personhood but through politicizing – articulating – the silent workings of their internally excluded presence within prevailing notions of personhood. (Wendy Brown 2005)

Silence itself – the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name, the discretion that is required between different speakers – is less the absolute limit of discourse, the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary, than an element that functions alongside the things said, with them and in relation to them within over-all strategies. There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying such things, how those who can and those who cannot speak of them are distributed, which type of discourse is authorized, or which form of discretion is required in either case. There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. (Michel Foucault 1981)

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