Vráblíková, Lenka. 2016. From Performativity to Aporia: Taking 'tremendous responsibility' towards feminism and the university. Gender and Education, 28(3), pp. 359-371. ISSN 0954-0253 [Article]

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This paper seeks to contribute to the thinking on feminism’s past and present entanglement with the university and strives to imagine its future. Through a close reading of the opening passage of Derrida’s essay ‘Mochlos, or The Conflict of the Faculties’, I trace ‘a university responsibility’ which does not lead to a subject conceived as self-identical. Drawing on the works of Hemmings, Scott and Wiegman, I argue that we must assume responsibility which will make us, feminism and the university tremble. This paper argues that envisioning feminist responsibilities as tremendous will allow us to conceive feminism as non-identical to itself and beyond the prerequisite of the sovereign (feminist) subject. Taking tremendous responsibilities will, as Hemmings proposes, help us create feminist narratives which will be potentially more politically transformative.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2016.1169250
Keywords:	Derrida; feminist theory; performativity; responsibility; the university
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event 18 March 2016 Accepted 16 April 2016 Published Online 2016 Published
Item ID:	33483
Date Deposited:	16 May 2023 10:59
Last Modified:	16 May 2023 11:04
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33483

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