Abstract
ABSTRACT Where is the body in critique? By this, I do not mean the body as an object of critical inquiry; we have had several generations of fruitful works that have called the apparent ‘naturalness' of the body into question – from feminist to postfeminist criticism, from Foucault to Bourdieu to Butler. We are, read in one way or another by these luminaries, inhabitants of bodies that serve as carriers of social meanings and signs, which are in turn ordered by prevailing forces that order the contexts in which we live. But what about the body that gets dizzy, dissociated, and nauseous, that eats, drinks, walks, urinates, and defecates, and that gets sick, degenerates, and dies? Where is this ‘natural body' when the ‘symbolic body’ is performing critique in the classroom?
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