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To do this it will consider how contemporary practices of self-representation on digital and networked media (captured in the practice of the \u2018selfie\u2019) frame a rhetoric of desire as jouissance. The dialogue between queer and psychoanalytic theory will also inform the discussion to consider how performative bodies that have \u2018mattered\u2019 (Judith Butler, 1993) and unconsciously \u2018muttered\u2019 (Tim Dean, 2000) now \u2018stutter\u2019. Using the work of Jacques Lacan to reposition Tim Dean’s and Judith Butler’s concepts of bodies that matter and bodies that mutter, this stuttering body, which is embedded in late capitalist discourses of celebrity and pornography, is reflective of the hesitancy, frustration, exhilaration, and repetition that it subversively contains, as well as remaining vulnerable to metonymic contiguity and transposition of a symbolically normative language it cannot control. \u2018Bodies that Stutter\u2019 are also the bodies that attempt to express a powerful jouissance. through a language of the \u2018personal\u2019 and the metaphorical signifier. Yet, unlike Imaginary bodies that rely upon ego, the \u2018Bodies that Stutter\u2019 are subject to an impersonal Other that underpins how their desire is expressed metonymically \u2013 through this process they symbolically-stutter.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A lot like desire, or slips of the tongue and pen, stuttering is reliant upon stops and starts, structure and chaos, satisfaction and dissatisfaction. It is also something that cannot be contained or applied to one body above another or indeed one identity and\/or identity type. This paper uses the contextual focus of the micro-celebrity selfie and its ubiquity on social networking sites to suggest that bodies that stutter form a practice of \u2018symbolic stuttering\u2019 that might well occur in multiple, ambiguous, and oblique ways.<\/p>\n

Gareth Longstaff<\/strong> is a lecturer in media and cultural studies at Newcastle University. Both his teaching and research interests are primarily concerned with queer sexuality, celebrity, discourses of self-representation, pornography and psychoanalysis. Gareth works at the intersection of how these are connected to other dimensions of queer, cultural, philosophical, mediated and social life and in his upcoming monograph \u2018Bodies that Stutter: Celebrity, Pornography and the Psychoanalysis of Self Representation\u2019 his approach to these issues engages and applies queer theory and crossing of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis to the impersonality of desire and the mediated screening of the self in self-representational photography, pornography\/sexual representation, and digital \/ networked media.<\/p>\n

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To do this it will consider how contemporary practices of self-representation on digital and networked media (captured in the practice of the \u2018selfie\u2019) frame a rhetoric of desire as jouissance. 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