“Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially… — 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
The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence.… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization.… — 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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