Becoming
摘要
This chapter presents women’s empowerment as an ongoing process of transformation. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of becoming (1987), Bakhtin’s carnivalesque (1984) and Rosi Braidotti’s feminist materialism (2002), it explores how the Women’s Comedy Workshop functions as a space of ecstatic experimentation, where laughter and play loosen the grip of fixed identities. Beginning with a playful anecdote from one of the workshops, the chapter shows how humour and affect can generate “lines of flight” that reconfigure what bodies can do and feel. Becoming here is framed as both aesthetic and political; a process that dissolves boundaries between performer and audience, self and other, human and animal, individual and collective. Through playful practices and the deliberate “amputation” of patriarchal power structures (Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, Columbia University Press, 1994), the workshops I suggest, cultivate minoritarian spaces in which different forms of becoming can unfold.