Dialectics of Identity and Difference:The Value-Form Connotation of Judith Butler's Theory of Gender Performativity
The theory of value-form had an important theoretical effect on the Western left-wing,and Judith Butler was also deeply influenced by it.Value,which embodies the relationship between private labor and the total social labor,can only be retrospectively confirmed after the transformation of the commodity form into the money form.This characteristic of value is described as"performatively enacted"by the postmodern left-wing represented by Slavoj Žižek,which reflects the dialectics of identity and difference.The dialectics reveals the identity form constructed by"real abstraction"in commodity exchange,and the social antagonism covered by the identity form.Butler regards gender as a social form as the same as value,which also contains the dialectical relationship between identity and difference.On the one hand,gender performativity generates a gender form(norm)of identity,and only gender identity conforming to this norm can be intelligible,just as labor can be recognized by society in the form of value.On the other hand,performativity generates gender differences that cannot be accommodated by the existing norm,which has the potential to subvert gender forms like antagonistic contradictions covered by the identity form of value.But Butler overemphasizes gender as the inherent difference of form,leading his analysis of form to identity politics.
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