AnyBody's Simulacra: A Theoretical Approach to (Post-Gender) Identity

Abstract

The [...] paper pursues a meta-theoretical focus as it traces how Georges Bataille's and Julia Kristeva's theories incorporate an increasingly less material or corporeal definition of the post-gendered subject and the signifying structures underlying it. [...] Kristeva's and Bataille's theories can be read as taking the (dissolution of) the subject beyond a framework of the real; and thus they call for a hyperreal contextualization, in which identity must be conceived of as (different levels of) Baudrillardean simulation.