Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: ...
Judith ButlerThe Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis. What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have bee...
Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable...
Judith ButlerIn Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the...
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of...
Judith ButlerA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekJudith 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 per...
What World Is This?: A Pandemic Pheno...
Judith ButlerThe pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in ...