Representation in Self Portraiture This is a blog to keep track of my dissertation research and to help develop ideas in an organised manner.

 looking at: performative practice: identoty and agency at the causewayed enclosures of winmill hill and Etton
Archeology dissertation
2003
source: http://www.hardav.co.uk/MA%20-%20HTML/contents.htm

OVERVIEW
focuses on the creation of notions of identity through performance + disposition
main aim to create complex notions of personhood, identityage and gender
combining the work of Foucault + Butler
Dissertation focuses on understanding identity of people of the past
(this is quite relevant to my dissertation as a photograph is inevitably of a past event and can never be of a future one (or present for that matter)

Butler 1993
Foucault 1978 inter alia

Butler describing identiyy as regulatory ideals that we fulfill because of society to an extent
how identity was created through the practive and performances of people in the past
diverse nature of identity
emotion, memory, relationships + thought

CHAPTER 4 - deals with identity.......

CHAPTER 2 - Identity: a performative understanding
identoty is essential to any understanding of the past, and is certainly not unrecoverable
bodes well with photography
Today identity is seen percieved as a combination of things THE MAIN 5 Things from the identity book, sex relgiion culture etc etc etc they make up a distinct set up of person dont they

   assumes we are the same
butler, clearly demonstrated how the above cateogires are regulatory ideals 1993 p1
ientity is created

Judith Butler: regulatory ideals and performativity
draws on an eclectic range of courses... as I mentioned previously
regulatory fictions as donna haraway described them 1991 193
str8/gay /old young are not biological facts they are cetegories we create and recite through performance.
performativity is not a singular act, reiteration of a norm or set of norms
 They are discource which produce what they say, 'mid wife cry ITS A GIRL EG
its not merely a biological statement it;s a performative act binding gender to the body
produces that which it names

western view that gender is constructed while sex remains the same, Butler challenges this view
Elizabeth Grosz offers critique

Do I really need to crique Judith? As this is the basis for my definitions to begin the dissertation so I don;t really need to criticise anything these could jsut the best things that I want to ....

 Similarities between Bourdieu and Butler
essentialism

CHAPTER 4 - Identity and agency at Windmill Hill and Etton
inclusion / exclusion

Helpful and insightful




Simon Johnson
www.thephilosophicalphotographer.co.uk