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**mpegdvdclip** · 06-24-2011, 11:21 PM

I'd be more interested in what Butler says about Gaga and gender and performance.

I think (?) I'd like to hear what Butler thinks about Gaga, but at the same time, teaching Butler to undergrads who think that Gaga is THE EXAMPLE of performativity can be a quite frustrating enterprise. So I almost worry about adding fuel to that particular fire. Not to mention Gaga's pat turnaround from conceptualizing identity as a product of fame, celebrity culture, &co to this whole mantra of being "born this way" seems to me a bit contradictory - or if nothing else, more invested in claims of biological determinism than in what was, to me, a more interesting persona (persona-as-self).

06-24-2011, 11:21 PM	#20
mpegdvdclip Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 477 Senior Member	I'd be more interested in what Butler says about Gaga and gender and performance. I think (?) I'd like to hear what Butler thinks about Gaga, but at the same time, teaching Butler to undergrads who think that Gaga is THE EXAMPLE of performativity can be a quite frustrating enterprise. So I almost worry about adding fuel to that particular fire. Not to mention Gaga's pat turnaround from conceptualizing identity as a product of fame, celebrity culture, &co to this whole mantra of being "born this way" seems to me a bit contradictory - or if nothing else, more invested in claims of biological determinism than in what was, to me, a more interesting persona (persona-as-self).
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