What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions -… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Very often, if you just get the question: "Well, are you a Zionist?" if you say no, it's assumed that you want the destruction… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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