Pop/Nihilism

Judith Butler: "La lucha debe ser por una vida vivible"

La definición actual de izquierda, el gobierno de Obama, el matrimonio gay, el “error” de reivindicar el derecho a la vida y el papel central de los medios de comunicación son algunos de los temas de este diálogo con la autora de Marcos de guerra, la teórica feminista más prestigiosa de la actualidad.

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I think one is hit by waves, and that one starts the day with a project, a plan, and one finds oneself foiled. One finds oneself fallen. One is exhausted but does not know why. Something is larger than one’s own deliberate plan or project, larger than one’s own knowing. Something takes hold, but is this something coming from the self, from the outside, or from some region where the difference between the two is indeterminable? What is it that claims us at such moments, such that we are not the masters of ourselves? To what are we tied? And by what are we seized?

Judith Butler (via servemethesky)

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I am not sure when mourning is successful, or when one has fully mourned another human being. I’m certain, though, that it does not mean that one has forgotten the person, or that something else comes along to take his or her place. I don’t think it works that way. I think instead that one mourns when one accepts the fact that the loss one undergoes will be one that changes you, changes you possibly forever, and that mourning has to do with agreeing to undergo a transformation the full result of which you cannot know in advance.

Judith Butler, Undoing Gender (via carrum)

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HULK CRY EVERY TIME HULK READ “UNDOING GENDER” AND “PRECARIOUS LIFE.” JUDITH BUTLER IS THE SHIT

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juditheffingbutler:

“There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender… identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results.”

- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble.

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juditheffingbutler:

“The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.”

- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble.

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Watch the "Examined Life" for free

Examined Life is a 2008 documentary film directed by Astra Taylor. The film features eight influential contemporary philosophers walking around New York and other metropolises and discussing the practical application of their ideas in modern culture.

The philosophers featured are Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Žižek, and Judith Butler, who is accompanied by Taylor’s sister Sunny, a disability activist.

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