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Framing intelligibility, identity, and selfhood: a reconsideration of spatio-temporal models

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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:03 authored by Sally Munt
The relationship between intelligibility and identity over the past thirty years has largely been approached through the linguistic construct of the subject. Proposing that our subjectivities be theoretically comprehended (made intelligible) as discursive effects is now common sense. Poststructuralism, following particularly Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan, has ensured that "the subject" is a cardinal category of contemporary thought; in any number of disciplines, it is one of the first concepts we teach to our undergraduates. But are we best served by continuing to insist on the intellectual primacy of the "subject," formulated as it has been within the negative paradigm of subjectivity as subjection? Not only do we need to readdress the question of agency, a persistently vexed issue for many major postmodern theorists, we also need to strategically offer more positive models for making sense of ourselves in the world -- if you like -- for making identity intelligible.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Reconstruction : Studies in Contemporary Culture

ISSN

1547-4348

Publisher

Bowling Green State University Press

Issue

3

Volume

2

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  • Media and Film Publications

Notes

Special Issue:- Autobiogeography: Considering Space and Identity

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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