{"id":151,"date":"2017-10-17T03:29:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T03:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2017-10-17T04:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T04:31:00","slug":"practice-and-performativity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/practice-and-performativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice and Performativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The argument made by Judith Butler, just previously discussed, is crucial to our understanding of this game of identity.\u00a0\u00a0 She proceeds in her conclusion that \u201cIndeed, there is no \u2018one\u2019 who takes on a gender norm.\u00a0 On the contrary, this citation of the gender norm is necessary in order to qualify as a \u2018one\u2019, to become viable as a \u2018one\u2019, where subject-formation is dependent on the prior operation of legitimating gender norms\u201d (616).\u00a0 Here, allow the word \u201cgender\u201d to be replaced with \u201cidentity\u201d for the present purpose, as Butler is speaking on the subject of gender as a constructed identity.\u00a0 There is, surely, no real or objective connection between identity norms and nature, but \u201c\u2026we feign unicity by retroactively creating meaning for these tears in mediated social reality, by repetitively attempting to symbolize what exceeds symbolization\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/10249288\/Procedural_Rhetoric_Beyond_Persuasion_First_Strike_and_the_Compulsion_to_Repeat\">Matheson<\/a> 12).\u00a0 It\u2019s societal.\u00a0 It\u2019s artificial.\u00a0 It\u2019s practiced until it becomes systematic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The argument made by Judith Butler, just previously discussed, is crucial to our understanding of this game of identity.\u00a0\u00a0 She proceeds in her conclusion that \u201cIndeed, there is no \u2018one\u2019 who takes on a gender norm.\u00a0 On the contrary, this citation of the gender norm is necessary in order to qualify as a \u2018one\u2019, to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/practice-and-performativity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Practice and Performativity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-151","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}