- Title
- Passionately attached: academic subjects of desire
- Creator
- Petersen, Eva Bendix
- Relation
- Judith Butler in Conversation. Analysing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life p. 55-67
- Relation
- http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415956543
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- In this essay I have attempted to illustrate a possible way of running with Foucault and Butler's thoughts on subjects and power; on the psychic, passionate, corporeal, and material life of power. In this attempt I have taken Homo academicus (Bourdieu, 1988), this creature who in puzzling and vexing ways at times insists that s/he inhabits a culture of no culture (Traweek, 1988), and caught her in the act of opaque and sweaty desire (beyond the capital-maximizing kind). It is a take-up that insists on the always political and ethical of the nittygritty and of historical enactments of passionate attachments. In this essay I will ponder Beaumont and Tocqueville's question and explore some ways that Butler helps me consider it in relation to academic subjects of desire.
- Subject
- Foucault; Butler; academic; desire; discursive constructions
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804910
- Identifier
- uon:6765
- Identifier
- ISBN:0415956544
- Language
- eng
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