“Splendid Failures”: Inclination, Slow Regicide, and Performative Critique

• Edmeads, Luke ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Brighton

     University of Brighton

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Res Publica: revista de historia de las ideas políticas, ISSN-e 1989-6115, Vol. 27, Nº. 1, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Toward a new imagination of revolutionary struggle. Conversations with Bonnie Honig’s A Feminist Theory of Refusal), págs. 51-56
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5209/rpub.91416
• Títulos paralelos:
  • “Fracasos espléndidos”: La inclinación, el lento regicidio,y la crítica performática
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  • español

    Este artículo se centra en la reelaboración crítica de Honig del concepto de inclinación y su concepto de "regicidio lento". Por "regicidio lento" Honig entiende la crítica performática de la violencia del orden patriarcal. Sin embargo, lo que Honig subestima es que esta intervención debe ser no violenta para no reinstaurar la violencia patriarcal.

    Sugiero que prestar más atención a la performatividad de la inclinación muestra cómo el "regicidio lento" permite un rechazo no violento en el que la normatividad del patriarcado se frustra y fracasa.

  • English

    This paper focuses on Honig’s critical reworking of the concept of inclination and her concept of “slow regicide”. With “slow regicide” Honig describes a performative critique of the violence of the patriarchal order. However, what Honig underestimates, I argue, is that this intervention must itself be non-violent if it is not to reinstate patriarchal violence.

    My suggestion is that paying closer attention to the performativity of inclination shows how “slow regicide” enables a non-violent refusal in which the normativity of patriarchy is frustrated and fails.

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