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Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

Butler, Judith

Paperback

Series: Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College, Book 3

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 067498398X
ISBN13: 9780674983984
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Feb 26 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week

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's book is everything that a book about our planet in the 21st century should be. It does not turn its back on the circumstances of the material world or give any succour to those who wish to view the present (and the future) through the lens of fantasies about the transformative possibilities offered by conventional politics Butler demonstrates a clear engagement with an aspect of the world that is becoming in many political contexts almost illicit to discuss: the idea that capitalism, certainly in its neoliberal form, is failing to provide a liveable life for the majority of human beings.

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