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[{"url":"http://127.0.0.1:1111/","title":"Home","description":null,"body":"\nWelcome\nto the online presence of Aron Petau.\nThis site is a collection of my thoughts and experiences.\nI hope you find something interesting here.\nThis Page is currently under construction.\nbroken links are to be expected.\n\n\n Do Something…\n\n","path":null},{"url":"http://127.0.0.1:1111/blog/","title":"Aron's Blog","description":null,"body":"Welcome to my quack'in blog, I quack about various stuff, but mostly I'm a demo.\n","path":null},{"url":"http://127.0.0.1:1111/blog/critical-philosophy-subjectivity/","title":"Critical Philosophy of Subjectivity","description":null,"body":"Forum entries from the Seminar: Critical Philosophy of Subjectivity 1: Michel Foucault\nOn Butler: Constituting norms =/= carrying normative responsibilities for their existence\n\n\t\n\t\tNote\n\tSource Text: Butler, J. (2004). Undoing Gender (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203499627\nPublication\n\n\nCitation from Butler, Page 51, citing Ewald, which is, in turn, interpreting Foucault:\n\nThe 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”\n(Norms, Discipline, and the Law, P.173)\n\nSuch a view suggests that any opposition to the norm is already\ncontained within the norm, and is crucial to its functioning.\nHere, for me, the entire futility of the approach later identified and described is condensed into a few sentences.\n\nHence, 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.\nPage 56, final sentence\n\nThe 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.\nI understand the first citation to clearly be Ewald's interpretation of things and am not sure whether Foucault's careful circumvention of the term \"Norms\" is related to anticipation of this argument.\nFurther, I am not sure I share Ewald's interpretation; I see that the object \"othered\" by a norm is a constituent and necessary object for the norm, simply due to its \"comparative\" nature (p. 51, citation from Ewald).\nThe oppressed may well be as constituting of norms as the privileged, but this does not translate to a normative responsibility nor a pang of guilt in my opinion. The dangerous argument that the oppressed bear responsibility for their situation is too close for my taste. I would like to emphasize a clear cut between constituting and reinforcing a norm and thriving on it.\nYes, maybe that is a good location to make the cut: The normative and ethical pressure, or better, the guilt of complicity lies with the ones thriving BECAUSE of a norm and clearly not with those thriving DESPITE OF a norm.\nI would think that Butler makes a similar argument elsewhere, but as such, I was missing it here, resulting in a very bleak and hopeless situation where any struggle to change the status quo through legislation is doomed and inevitably propagates and reinvents stable unfair relations of power.\n\n\t\n\t\tNote\n\tcreated by Aron Petau on Sunday 23. January 2022, 14:23\n\n\nOn Ewald: What, then, is a norm?\n\n\t\n\t\tNote\n\tSource Text: François Ewald; Norms, Discipline, and the Law. Representations 1 April 1990; 30 138–161. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2928449\nPublication\n\n\nSome tiny details about norms that stuck out to me about the norm were that: 1: they are fictional and thus, an object conforming to a norm is not more meaningful than an object not conforming to a norm. 2: the entire given set comprises the norm, the deviations play a defining role
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