On some other subversions ~ contributing to deliberation on Judith Butler’s concept of law

Esej pokušava da ukaže na kulturnu, istorijsku, geografsku pozicioniranost koncepta zakona Džudit Batler i da predstavi moguće implikacije načina na koji je osmišljen. U zavisnosti od toga kako se konceptualizuje zakon zavisi i kakve oblike subverzivnosti će biti moguće uočiti/osmisliti. Ukoliko se obrati pažnja na kontekst i na to da subjekti nikad nisu samo polni, zakon se može videti na drugačije načine. Predstavljeni su konteksti u kojima su »treće« polnosti legitimni akteri. Promena epistemoloških pretpostavki do koje je došlo krajem XX veka dovela je do preformulacije koncepta nauke, te se može smatrati da je intervencija u naučne teorije danas više podstaknuta težnjom ka inkluzivnijim, nego univerzalno istinitim konceptima. Može se reći da je neophodnost antropologije i feminističke teorije stvaranje koncepata preko kojih će biti moguće artikulisati i prihvatiti stvarnost na drugačije načine. Upućivanje na kontekst, na tačke preseka istorijskih, rasnih, profesionalnih, geografskih, polnih/rodnih vektora moći, jeste strategija koja može biti korisna u procesu ostvarivanja takvog zadatka.The paper tries to show the cultural, historical and geographical positioning of Judith Butler’s concept of law as well as to grasp possible implications of the way in which it was constructed. The way of conceptualizing the law determines which subversion forms we will be able to observe/create. If the attention were focused on the context and on the fact that subjects are never only sexual, the law would be seen differently. The paper presents the contexts in which the »third« sex becomes a legitimate action protagonist. The change of epistemological assumptions in the late twentieth century meant the transformation of the concept of science, due to which the intervention into scientific theories today can be seen as tending rather towards more inclusive, than universally true concepts. We can say that anthropology and feminist theory today are so necessary because they create the concepts through which we can articulate and accept reality in different ways. Referring to context and to the points of intersection of historical, racial, professional, geographical and sexual power vectors present a useful strategy in the process of fulfilling such a task