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Joshua St. Pierre "Distending Straight-Masculine Time" - Coggle…
Joshua St. Pierre "Distending Straight-Masculine Time"
What is the problem?
the imperative of bodies being coerced into normative "time"
our society has a default that is straight-masculine-abled
"“Drawing upon feminist, queer, and crip phenomenology, this essay argues that the distinct temporality of the lived, stuttering body disturbs the normalized “choreography” of communication and thereby threatens the disabled speaker’s recognition as a speaking subject" (49). The seeing of the dysfluent speaker as not being human
this is about violence against the body: Jezer and the "existential intention" of being seen as a rational, communicative subject in dialogue. "the worry of disappearing"
Jezer "a blow to the psyche" --it's pretty violent
"The disabled speaking body conversely arrests time since the oblique relation between past/present/future produced by awkward pauses, gaps in signification, and stuttered syntax makes temporal movement vicious" (54-55). it's violent. It also shows
Key terms: "a future directed linearity abstracted from the flux of bodily time" (50). A removal of the body/lived experience; the imperative of bodies being coerced into normative "time"
straight time
masculine time
"performances of masculinity" and the ratio of 4:1 stutters are men (55);
following Cavarero "the symbolic patriarchal order that identifies the masculine with reason and the feminine with the body" qtd 55) --
"Women may chauvinistically be represented as the chatty, nattering gender, but this caricature results in part from women's voices being bound to their bodies and emotions rather than to reason" (55)
it's structured, it's got a certain ryththm, it
"nuturing choreographies that open up an array of communicative futures surpressed" by straight time (54-5); it allows for spaces, pauses, it's not judgemental.
Builds off queer, feminist, and crip phenomenology
building from Alison Kafer: "a linear development from dependent childhood to independent reproductive adulthood" (qtd 54); the idea of one is born, grows up, makes babies, and die (uh, oh, that's heteronormativity)
Following Iris Young: "the entrance of the body into speech" (qtd 56).
Way out: a return to bodily time
a return to the now, sitting within the now: "Passing beyond the orbit of shard bodily time, choreographies of speech are often not structured by any
body's
time, but by objective clock time impervious to the inherent flux of lived tine. The ddisabled speaker feels this disembodies, straight-masculine time oppressively forced upon him, time that does not flex and has no sense of becoming (61-2)
"the temproalizing rhythms of the disabled speaking body spurn the cardinal value of futurity and invite interlocutors to gather in noninstrulmentalized and nonproductive present" (55)
reveals and values the "shape" of language