Since the appearance of her early-career bestseller Gender Trouble in 1990, American philosopher Judith Butler is one of the most influential (and at times controversial) thinkers in academia. Her work addresses numerous socially pertinent topics such as gender normativity, political speech, media representations of war, and the democratic power of assembling bodies. The volume Bodies That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler brings together essays from scholars across academic disciplines who apply, reflect on, and further Butler's ideas to their own research. It includes a new essay by Butler herself, from which it takes its title. Organized around four key themes in Butler's scholarship - performativity, speech, precarity, and assembly - the volume offers an excellent introduction to the contemporary relevance of Butler's thinking, a multi-perspectival approach to key topics of contemporary critical theory, and a testimony to the vibrant interdisciplinary discourses characterizing much of today's humanities' research.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Annemie Halsema, Katja Kwastek, and Roel van den Oever
- Performativity
- On Butler’s Theory of Agency
- The Psychic Life of Horror
- Abjection and Racialization in Butler’s Thought
- A Few Words about Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Beyond Gender(s)”
- Speech
- The Performative Edge of Non-Politicians
- Populism and Shifting Legitimacy in US Presidential Politics
- Talking Back as an Accented Speaker?
- Reframing Butler’s Idea of Subversive Resignification
- What’s in a Name?
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Private Romeo
- Precarity
- Rethinking Counseling from a Relational Perspective
- From Alleviating Suffering to “Becoming Human”
- Bridging Conversations
- “Paradigm Cases” of Dependency in Eva Kittay and Judith Butler
- Dancing the Image
- Complicity, Responsibility and Spectatorship
- Santiago Sierra’s Workers Who Cannot Be Paid
- Precarious Labor in Contemporary Art
- Assembly
- Rethinking Radical Democracy with Butler
- Strategies of (Self-)Empowerment
- On the Performativity of Assemblies in and as Theatre
- Bodies That Still Matter
- About the Contributors
- Index
- List of Figures
- Figure 1 Judith Butler lecture at conference ‘Critical Theory in the Humanities’,Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, April 2017
- Figure 2 Private Romeo (2011), film still: Cadet Josh (on the right) speaks asCapulet, addressing cadet Carlos as Tybalt
- Figure 3 Private Romeo (2011), film still: Private Romeo as a conventional retellingof Romeo and Juliet, with male bodies speaking a heterosexual romance
- Figure 4 Arkadi Zaides, Archive (2015)
- Figure 5 Arkadi Zaides, Archive (2014)
- Figure 6 Arkadi Zaides, Archive (2014)
- Figure 7 Santiago Sierra, Workers who cannot be paid, remunerated to remaininside cardboard boxes, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (2000)
- Figure 8 Santiago Sierra, Workers who cannot be paid, remunerated to remaininside cardboard boxes, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (2000)
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