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This article seeks to develop a non-reductionist understanding that highlights how both material and discursive elements are involved in the doing of gender. It is presented as a piece of auto-ethnography, in which the author experienced how her own 'stabilised and neutral academic gender' suddenly became destabilised (and thus revealed to be material-discursive) when transferred to another material setting – specifically, a hamam in Istanbul. Although the author's social relationships with the male participants involved were unaltered, the gendered body came to matter in a new way when it was enacted or 'measured' in a different apparatus. Following the plot of this autoethnography, the article investigates how a performative approach could deal with materiality, moving from J. Butler's perspective and to a performative version of STS, particularly the concepts put forward by K. Barad.

Using patriotic sentiments as a vantage point, the article discusses emotions as a core element of the subjectivation of the late 18th century. Love of the Fatherland became a concept of the time to denote the proper attitude among the citizens; an emotion that should be experienced as an inner quality and not as an obligation forced upon them. This analysis investigates patriotism and cult of emotions as principal elements of a specific understanding of subjectivity and in the transition leading to romanticism and the 19th century. The analysis of subjectivation processes is based upon theoretical and analytical concepts from Michel Foucault. The 18th century cult of sensibility is seen as a part of a discursive formation, in which emotions are being objectified and textualized, and the individual is construed as a subject of emotion, reason and morality. It is proposed that military education and patriotic ritual enhanced the development of new forms of self awareness, and that emotions came to be central in the development of new "technologies of the self" that became important for the governmentality of modern states. The article is also a contribution to the genealogical analysis of how Western culture came to see emotions as the inner locus of the self, and hence as expressions of a true core of the individual.

Genstande. Rum. Kroppe. I årtier har kulturforskningen fokuseret på sproglige konstruktioner og tegnenes spil. Men nu er tingene og det materielle for alvor vendt tilbage. Det kræver analyser af det materielle som dynamiske og betydningsproducerende processer, relationer og praksisser: som materialiseringer.I denne antologi stiller otte forfattere fra forskellige forskningsområder skarpt på genstandenes, rummenes og kroppenes materialiseringer ved at analysere, hvad og hvordan materialitet 'gør' og 'gøres'. Inspireret af nye materialitetsteorier og især af Actor Network Theory indkredser forfa