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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