Judith Butler Quotes - Page 6

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• It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets us see that our lives have always been more complex than traditional categories allow. So, I think, you know, maybe the introduction of new words permits us to rethink what we've taken for granted about what forms bodies take, what the name is for certain kinds of sexual, intimate relations, how we think of a life.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Reality, Thinking

  Source: ilga.org

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• I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Revolutionary, Trouble

  Source: ilga.org

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• I think there is no one answer. It is still a struggle, there are tensions and I'm sure there are many people who would like to see these questions laid to rest or cease to be posed altogether.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Thinking, People

  Source: ilga.org

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• The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.

  Judith Butler

  Cities, Trying, United States

  Source: ilga.org

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• In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation of occupation or expulsion, that there is a military order that controls the boundaries of what would be a sovereign Palestinian state, that the land on which that state is now thinkable has been radically diminished by an ongoing practice of land confiscation and appropriation.

  Judith Butler

  Military, Order, Land

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

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• Maybe we need to start with the rethinking of what is "west" and what is "non-west." It seems to me that there are any number of populations who already cross that divide, and we could probably point to several existing states that belong exclusively neither to one category nor to the other. Do we use these terms to designate geographical realities, geopolitical ones, or perhaps sites of power, exploitation, orientalism that move through space and time in ways that have to be tracked historically.

  Judith Butler

  Moving, Reality, Numbers

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

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• 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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• Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

  Judith Butler

  Determination, Self, People

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

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• I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.

  Judith Butler

  Military, War, Mean

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

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• Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and the feminine. I want to suggest that today the intersex movement is very engaged with criticizing that idea.

  Judith Butler

  Ideas, Two, Looks

  Source: ilga.org

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• There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we "should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge." It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, Grief, Extraordinary Moments

  "Judith Butler". Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.

  Judith Butler

  Real, Loss, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

  Judith Butler

  Understanding, Moral, Source

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

  Judith Butler

  Victim, Jew, Understood

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• If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?

  Judith Butler

  Heterosexuality Is, Issues, Female

  Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2002). “Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Routledge

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• Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race and class we make when we speak about "women" or what assumptions of gender and race we make when we speak about "class." It allows us to unpack those categories and see the various kinds of social formations and power relations that constitute those categories.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Race, Class

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists, we don't have to have gone to the academy, or to the university to learn theory and to be a theorist of gender.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Important, Gone

  Source: ilga.org

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• Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described as neither), it would become the responsibility of all of us to change the conditions of reception so that the public might begin to distinguish between criticism of Israel and a hatred of Jews.

  Judith Butler

  Change, Responsibility, Israel

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• When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Twelve, World

  Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.234, Routledge

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• Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

  Judith Butler

  Rights, Links, Way

  "Weapon of the Strong: Conversations on US State Terrorism". Book by Jon Bailes and Cihan Aksan, November 27, 2012.

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• 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 of the state of Israel and that you're involved in some actual or potential violent attack. But actually, you could say: "Not on this basis".

  Judith Butler

  Israel, Want, Destruction

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I have also been invited to talk to psychologists and psychoanalysts and I liked that very much. Because, they are the ones who are bringing a lot of very, you know, problematic ideas about sexuality and gender into psychiatric and psychological settings. And I like having some influence there.

  Judith Butler

  Ideas, Influence, Psychological

  Source: ilga.org

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• Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

  Judith Butler

  Order, Law, Identity

  Judith Butler (2011). “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”, p.102, Routledge

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• So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Suicidal, Collective Effort

  Source: ilga.org

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• I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.

  Judith Butler

  Attitude, People, Wish

  Source: www.transadvocate.com

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