期刊名称：Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest
电子版ISSN：2330-1392
出版年度：2014
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：69-78
出版社：Punctum Books
摘要：In this article we focus on the potential for an alignment of certain feminist artistic practices andpoststructuralist conceptions of critique that may enable ways of theorising practices of resistanceand engender ways of practicing resistance in theory, without the lurch back into masculinistforms of dogmatism. It will be claimed that an ontological conception of art, considered as thatwhich makes a difference in the world, can not only challenge the primacy of the dogmatic andmasculine ‘subject who judges’, but also instil ways of thinking about, and ways of enacting,feminist artistic encounters with the capacity to resist dogmatism. The theoretical stakes of thisclaim are elaborated through complimentary readings of Deleuze and Guattari’s constructivistaccount of philosophy and Irigaray’s feminist explorations of what it means to think from withinthe 'labial', rather than from the position of the dominant phallic symbolic order. We argue thatthis creative conjunction between Irigaray, Deleuze and Guattari provides the resources for aconceptualisation of both feminist artistic practice and the critical practice of poststructuralistphilosophy as forms of resistance to the dominant patriarchal order, in ways that can avoid thecollapse back into masculinist forms of dogmatism. Revel’s discussion of the role of constituentrather than constituted forms of resistance is employed to draw out the implications of thisposition for contentious politics. It is concluded that constituent practices of resistance canbe understood as a challenge to the phallogocentric symbolic order to the extent that they arepractices of a labial art-politics
