Simulation as Affective Performance in the Origins of Feminism
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2020v28n272434Abstract
This article scrutinizes the mocking elections conducted by suffragists in terms of affective performances. Through the analysis of the simulations carried out in Argentina in March and November 1920, I claim that the demolition of the patriarchal structure of feelings executed by feminism altered the understanding of reality through gestures typical of the artistic avant-gardes such as these acts of preenactment. Indeed, this article argues that such performances incarnated both a shift in the emancipatory language as linked to affect and – most importantly –, due to the performative order of such affect, an alteration of the understanding of reality.
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