ABSTRACT
Anyone familiar with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work knows that the corporealities of writing and lived experience not only occupy a central role in her writing but also constitute the pivotal motivational thrust of her quest to pursue queer performativities. Sedgwick relates shame and writing to the erotic dimension of the body and self. She posits a particular view of organization as a consequence of performative acts that call the witness of the norm community to the scenes of performative utterance that she terms neighbourhoods. Her project with periperformativity is to show the specifics of such utterances as producing localities of effects as well as to address the performative force of language utterance and its effects on specific corporeal materialities. In Sedgwick’s perspective, failure to connect the aspects in analysis would run the risk of reproducing anew the body-mind divide that has persisted in social theory.
