Kristeva and the Politics of Agency
Kristeva and the Politics of Agency

Summary/Abstract: "One of the traditional objections to many contemporary critical and/or theoretical practices has been the apparent inability of such practices to do more than deconstruct or demystify without offering a basis for effective human action. Indeed, the argument can be made that the practices of demystification, deconstruction, or denaturalization cannot produce an agent, cannot lead to action, but must inevitably progress into the anarchy of absolute, ungrounded freedom, of escalating, inescapable play. Linda Hutcheon claims that while postmodern art is inevitably, inherently political, “the postmodern has no effective theory of agency that enables a move into political action” (Oliver, 1993:3)."

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