# The Body [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_politics) ( Ancient–present ) ## Description The body as a philosophical, artistic, and political site — embodiment and phenomenology, the performing and puppet body, the disabled body, and the trans/posthuman body, theorized by [[Judith Butler]] as materialized through discourse and performative repetition. ## Key Tags #the-body ## Essential Works - Butler, Judith. *Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex."* Routledge, 1993. - Foundational text on the body as discursively produced rather than a pre-given biological given ## Details ### Key Theorists - [[Judith Butler]] - theorizes the body as materialized through discourse and performative repetition ### Exemplary Practitioners %% none yet %% ### Related Concepts - [[Performance Art]] - uses the artist's own body as primary medium - [[Puppet Studies]] - the puppet body as a limit case testing where "the body" and personhood begin - [[Affirmative Posthumanism]] - extends questions of embodiment into the posthuman and nonhuman - [[Phenomenology]] - grounds this page's embodiment thread in the philosophical tradition of the lived body ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Associated Movements or Institutions %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Butler, Judith. *Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex."* Routledge, 1993.