Marginal Spatialities and Rhizomatic Identifications: Kathy Acker´s Discursive Transgressions
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Deleuze articulation of the concept of rhizome is taken by cultural theory as a collective mechanism of enunciation. With his contribution, he favored the construction of a solid ground for marginal voices acting as legitimate discourses. Also, his discussions of space (later retaken by specialists of the theories of space) problematized traditional epistemological relations that supported a hegemony-resistance pattern whose identity was determined by the existence of oppressed and minority groups. However, as Homi Bhabha claimed, those marginal groups possessed a subversive political agency, and they found in rhizomatic structures a perfect vehicle for the reappropriation (or rather reterritorialization) of space. This article studies the discursive deformations of Kathy Acker´s narrative to embody the celebration of those silenced voices, as well as the marginal uprising favored by the postmodern fragmentation of identities. Rooting from Deleuze´s principle of multiplicity, Acker´s narratives question the relation of multiplicity with subject and subjectivity, and reconcile the performative function of those voices with intertextuality as a machinery of discursive production. Acker uses voice and taboo to resignify conventional hegemonic relations from a political imposture of transgression, violence, and−textual and ethical−decontextualized plagiarism. The deconstructive process necessary to carry out these practices provides several tools of theoretical articulation. Among them, both voice and taboo hold a fundamental position in this essay as they are conceptualized as instruments to problematize marginalization, and consequently, to become aporetic references of postmodern spatialities.
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Deleuze articulation of the concept of rhizome is taken by cultural theory as a collective mechanism of enunciation. With his contribution, he favored the construction of a solid ground for marginal voices acting as legitimate discourses. Also, his discussions of space (later retaken by specialists of the theories of space) problematized traditional epistemological relations that supported a hegemony-resistance pattern whose identity was determined by the existence of oppressed and minority groups. However, as Homi Bhabha claimed, those marginal groups possessed a subversive political agency, and they found in rhizomatic structures a perfect vehicle for the reappropriation (or rather reterritorialization) of space. This article studies the discursive deformations of Kathy Acker´s narrative to embody the celebration of those silenced voices, as well as the marginal uprising favored by the postmodern fragmentation of identities. Rooting from Deleuze´s principle of multiplicity, Acker´s narratives question the relation of multiplicity with subject and subjectivity, and reconcile the performative function of those voices with intertextuality as a machinery of discursive production. Acker uses voice and taboo to resignify conventional hegemonic relations from a political imposture of transgression, violence, and−textual and ethical−decontextualized plagiarism. The deconstructive process necessary to carry out these practices provides several tools of theoretical articulation. Among them, both voice and taboo hold a fundamental position in this essay as they are conceptualized as instruments to problematize marginalization, and consequently, to become aporetic references of postmodern spatialities.
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