Judith Butler Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Icons, People

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

• A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.

  Judith Butler

  Fall, Gay, Mourning

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

• I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, War, Thinking

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

• If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of self bound up with their genders, so to get rid of gender would be to shatter their self-hood.

  Judith Butler

  Strong, Self, People

  Source: transadvocate.com

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