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Navigating the Intimate Unknown: Vulnerability as an Affective Relation
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research Pub Date : 2021-04-21 , DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2021.1899284
Miri Rozmarin 1
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ABSTRACT

This study theorizes vulnerability as a dual affective relation between subjects and their surroundings. I argue that an account of the affective aspects of vulnerability can respond to two challenges related to theories of vulnerability. The first challenge is to offer a critique of vulnerability as an effect of harmful social formations while not assuming an account of vulnerable subjects as living lessened lives. The second challenge is to provide an improved understanding regarding how vulnerability may operate as an available affective resource for political subjects. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy, I assert that vulnerability is a dual affective relation. As an aspect of social precarity, vulnerability is the affective pattern that stems from affective encounters with power formations, which limit and hinder life. However, I assert that vulnerability is also an affective response that marks the micro vital connections of bodies as they allow transformation and creativity to surpass the limits of stable subject positions. This duality of vulnerability yields political significance as an affective navigating tool for political subjects.



中文翻译:

探索亲密的未知:作为一种情感关系的脆弱性

摘要

本研究将脆弱性理论化为主体与其周围环境之间的双重情感关系。我认为,对脆弱性的情感方面的解释可以应对与脆弱性理论相关的两个挑战。第一个挑战是对脆弱性作为有害社会形态的影响提出批评,而不是假设脆弱的主体过着减少的生活. 第二个挑战是更好地理解脆弱性如何作为政治主体的可用情感资源发挥作用​​。借鉴德勒兹和加塔里的哲学,我断言脆弱是一种双重情感关系。作为社会不稳定的一个方面,脆弱性是源于与权力结构的情感相遇的情感模式,它限制和阻碍了生活。然而,我断言脆弱也是一种情感反应,它标志着身体的微观生命联系,因为它们允许转变和创造力超越稳定主体位置的限制。这种脆弱性的二元性产生了政治意义,作为政治主体的情感导航工具。

更新日期:2021-04-21
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