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<!doctype html><html lang=en xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml><head><meta charset=UTF-8><meta name=description><meta content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1" name=viewport><meta content=#9a9996 name=theme-color><title>Critical Philosophy of Subjectivity - Aron Petau</title><link href=https://aron.petau.net/blog/critical-philosophy-subjectivity/ rel=canonical><link href=https://aron.petau.net/favicon.png rel=icon type=image/png><link href=https://aron.petau.net/apple-touch-icon.png rel=apple-touch-icon sizes=180x180 type=image/png><link title="Aron Petau - RSS Feed" href=https://aron.petau.net/rss.xml rel=alternate type=application/rss+xml><link title="Aron Petau - Atom Feed" href=https://aron.petau.net/atom.xml rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml><style>:root{--accent-color:#6f8396}</style><link href=https://aron.petau.net/style.css rel=stylesheet><link href=https://aron.petau.net/syntax-theme.css rel=stylesheet><script defer src=https://aron.petau.net/closable.js></script><script defer src=https://aron.petau.net/fuse.js></script><script defer src=https://aron.petau.net/search-fuse.js></script><meta content="Aron Petau" property=og:site_name><meta content="Critical Philosophy of Subjectivity - Aron Petau" property=og:title><meta content=https://aron.petau.net/blog/critical-philosophy-subjectivity/ property=og:url><meta content="Forum entries from the Seminar: Critical Philosophy of Subjectivity 1: Michel Foucault" property=og:description><meta content=https://aron.petau.net/card.png property=og:image><meta content=en_US property=og:locale><body><main id=main-content><h1>Critical Philosophy of Subjectivity</h1><h2 id=forum-entries-from-the-seminar-critical-philosophy-of-subjectivity-1-michel-foucault><a aria-label="Anchor link for: forum-entries-from-the-seminar-critical-philosophy-of-subjectivity-1-michel-foucault" class=zola-anchor href=#forum-entries-from-the-seminar-critical-philosophy-of-subjectivity-1-michel-foucault>Forum entries from the Seminar: Critical Philosophy of Subjectivity 1: Michel Foucault</a></h2><h3 id=on-butler-constituting-norms-carrying-normative-responsibilities-for-their-existence><a aria-label="Anchor link for: on-butler-constituting-norms-carrying-normative-responsibilities-for-their-existence" class=zola-anchor href=#on-butler-constituting-norms-carrying-normative-responsibilities-for-their-existence>On Butler: Constituting norms =/= carrying normative responsibilities for their existence</a></h3><blockquote class=note><p class=alert-title><i class=icon></i>Note<p>Source Text: Butler, J. (2004). Undoing Gender (1st ed.). Routledge. <a href=https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203499627>https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203499627</a> <a href=https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203499627>Publication</a></blockquote><p>Citation from Butler, Page 51, citing Ewald, which is, in turn, interpreting Foucault:<blockquote><p>The norm integrates anything which might attempt to go beyond it—nothing, nobody, whatever difference it might display, can ever claim to be exterior, or claim to possess an otherness which would actually make it other” <cite><a href=https://doi.org/10.2307/2928449>(Norms, Discipline, and the Law, P.173)</a></cite></blockquote><p>Such a view suggests that any opposition to the norm is already contained within the norm, and is crucial to its functioning.<p>Here, for me, the entire futility of the approach later identified and described is condensed into a few sentences.<blockquote><p>Hence, regulations that seek merely to curb certain specified activities (sexual harassment, welfare fraud, sexual speech) perform another activity that, for the most part, remains unmarked: the production of the parameters of personhood, that is, making persons according to abstract norms that at once condition and exceed the lives they make—and break. <cite>Page 56, final sentence</cite></blockquote><p>The idea that it is impossible to legislatively regulate norms without propelling, propagating, and carving them out deeper resonates with me, but at the same time, it has left me undecided on how to proceed.
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