On the Embodied Performativity of Fear

Chair:
Prof Mirta Antonelli (Universidad de Córdoba)

Abstract

This work group invites participants to exchange their perspectives and their work (aesthetic, social, political or academic) about fear as a performative field: its different degrees (fear, terror, panic), its fields of experience (traumatism, event, catastrophe, stigmatization, etc.), the different images of threats, collapses, etc. that de-structure the space-time and symbolic-imaginary coordinates and suppress or create practices, territories, identities and corporal languages, particularly in the framework of incipient or legitimized biopolitical processes, be it by way of �naturalization,� legalization or the construction of legitimizing consensus; or as resistance, dissidence, etc. toward them. In short, we invite contributions regarding what could be called the �history of the relationships� between body and power along the axis of fear, which is such a politically powerful affect.

Biography

Mirta Antonelli is Professor of Critical Discourse Studies in the Literature Department of the School of Philosophy and Humanities at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.