Συγγραφέας
Ahıska Meltem
Τίτλος
The power-drive and the time of feminine politics
Περιοδικό
φεμινιστιqά/feministiqa
Τεύχος
1
Έτος
2018
Σύνδεσμος
https://feministiqa.net/the-power-drive-and-the-time-of-feminine-politics/
Περίληψη
This essay argues for feminine politics in a world in which waste has become the paradoxical engine for further ‘development’, feeding the power-drive of a masculine politics obsessed with death. However the essay does not present the feminine as an alternative in positive terms, which would be to posit a definite, particular, and idealized substance or form. Instead, it suggests that we can approach the feminine through a negative dialectic, extracting from history the possibility (and embodying that very possibility) of what has been suppressed, attacked, and violated as feminine. The objective thus is to come to terms with the persistent historical structuration that has made the feminine not only the other, but also extremely vulnerable in economic, political and cultural life. The feminine finds its invisible threads and sources in the history of women and their experience, struggle, and agency, but goes beyond women as a given category to encompass others –already and not yet– engaged in a different way of knowing and living in this world. The feminine constitutes a domain of subjugated knowledge of life that does not accept the binary of body and mind and is connected to being in the world, not based on automatism, control, and life/death as abstract and governable categories. It is time that we join the energies of feminisms by collectively and creatively embracing and re-making forms of knowledge, ethics, and the politics of the feminine.
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά (Συγγραφέα)
απόβλητα, θηλυκό, μελλοντικότητα, φαλλογοκεντρικό σύστημα
Ετικέτες
Φεμινισμός, Σπουδές Φύλου
Επιστημονικό Πεδίο
Φιλοσοφία
Παρατηρήσεις
Βιβλιογραφική Αναφορά
Ahıska, M. (2018). The power-drive and the time of feminine politics. φεμινιστιqά/feministiqa, 1. Ανακτήθηκε από: https://feministiqa.net/the-power-drive-and-the-time-of-feminine-politics/