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Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity―the destruction of the conditions of livability―has been a galvanizing force and theme in today’s highly visible protests.Butler broadens the theory of performativity beyond speech acts to include the concerted actions of the body. Assemblies of physical bodies have an expressive dimension that cannot be reduced to speech, for the very fact of people gathering “says” something without always relying on speech. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s view of action, yet revising her claims about the role of the body in politics, Butler asserts that embodied ways of coming together, including forms of long-distance solidarity, imply a new understanding of the public space of appearance essential to politics.Butler links assembly with precarity by pointing out that a body suffering under conditions of precarity still persists and resists, and that mobilization brings out this dual dimension of corporeal life. Just as assemblies make visible and audible the bodies that require basic freedoms of movement and association, so do they expose coercive practices in prison, the dismantling of social democracy, and the continuing demand for establishing subjugated lives as mattering, as equally worthy of life. By enacting a form of radical solidarity in opposition to political and economic forces, a new sense of “the people” emerges, interdependent, grievable, precarious, and persistent.
Series: Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College (Book 3)
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (November 17, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674967755
ISBN-13: 978-0674967755
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1 x 8.3 inches
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Judith Butler has been saying the same thing for well over a decade, and this is just the latest rehashing of her arguments. There isn't anything compelling in here. If you have never read Butler, this is worth a read. If you have read anything she has written since 2000, you can probably infer everything she says in here.
Much more inclusive and broad reaching than the title would infer. So wonderfully written and presented appealing to the non academic as well. If there is presumption in there it is humble and irrelevant.
This is a moving and lucid book, complex and timely.
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