The labor of reflexivity

D Soyini Madison

doi:10.1177/1532708611401331

The labor of reflexivity

D Soyini Madison^*

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Performance Studies

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Abstract

Reflexivity is examined as an act of labor. Employing Tami Spry and Della Pollock's discretely different articulations of the "performative" and the "I," reflexivity becomes a particular quality of labor that works to leave something behind, something that lingers, something that will remain long after our reflexive work takes form. What labor as reflexivity leaves behind both embraces and jettisons notions of hauntings and memories, because it contemplates its own contemplations within past and future contingencies of self and Other that are boundlessly committed to an enlivening present. Labor as reflexivity is enumerated as being constituted by materiality, futurity, and performative temporality.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	129-138
Number of pages	10
Journal	Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
Volume	11
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708611401331
State	Published - Apr 1 2011

Keywords

futurity
labor
materiality
performative temporality
performative-I

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Cultural Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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