Abstract
The study focuses on Judith Butler's remarks on the chiasmatic interconnection between the language and matter. The aim is to find out, what such an interconnection means and what it emerges from.
The study shows that the interconnection is embedded in Butler's conception of the performative gender identity. Posing the body as an active participant of the process of construction of the one's identity, Butler tries to avoid cultural determinism and the emergence of a voluntaristic subject.
After a brief summary of Butler's conception of a performative gender identity, the study pays attention to the disruption of the opposition between subjects and objects as it appears in Butler's writings. The next part of the paper is dedicated to the issue of the chiasmatic interconnection between language and matter.