Tag Archives: Judith Butler

Judith Butler: Fascist Passions

Judith Butler at the University of Bologna (07/05/2024); an urgent intervention for our times …

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After Pantin: Judith Butler

From the Verso Books Blog (14/03/20249 … In response to remarks they gave at an event in Paris earlier this month, Judith Butler has received hate mail while Zionist publications have attacked them. In this article, Butler defends and clarifies their position. … Continue reading

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For March 8th: Judith Butler on Gender

Judith Butler in Barcelona’s Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2018). Gender and sexuality for teenagers: Discussion with Miquel Missé and 300 students

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The “Deaths” of Poet Writers: Nour El-Din Haggag and Refaat Alareer

From lundimatin, #407, December 11, 2023 … The young Palestinian writer and poet Nour El-Din Haggag has just died on December 5, followed on December 7 by the poet Refaat Alareer, after the bombing of their house in Gaza. One … Continue reading

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Judith Butler: Palestinians Are Not Being “Regarded as People” by Israel and US

The Truthout news service has generously given us permission to share an excellent interview with Judith Butler by George Yancy, on this most recent Israeli military campaign against Gaza and its people. (31/10/2023) Judith Butler calls for immediate ceasefire, Palestinians’ … Continue reading

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Free Palestine/Free Israel (III)

Imagining freedom and justice beyond state sovereignty, with Hannah Arendt. Politically, this identification of freedom with sovereignty is perhaps the most pernicious and dangerous consequence of the philosophical equation of freedom and free will. For it leads either to a … Continue reading

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Judith Butler: What is the value of Palestinian lives?

The 2014 Edward Said Memorial Lecture with Dr. Judith Butler 13 October 2014The Palestine CenterWashington, DC Yousef Munayyer: Moving to today’s program. We are very happy to host, on an annual basis, a memorial lecture commemorating the contributions and life of Professor … Continue reading

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Remembering the Stonewall riots of 1969

… if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves (compare Rep.), they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all … Continue reading

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Sabotaging gender, feminism and capital

We share below an essay by a friend of Autonomies, a conference paper presented at the CIEG II International Congress: Gender, Feminist and Woman’s Studies: Reflexivity, Resistance and Action (July 24-26), at the ISCSP – Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais … Continue reading

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Stonewall: Re-Politicising Pride

THE ANAL MACHINE (Apocryphal poem by Paul B. Preciado) In front of the heterosexual machine It rises, fierce, the ANAL MACHINE The non-hierarchical connection of the organs The redistribution of pleasure And anal collectivisation Announce a SEXUAL COMMUNISM That is … Continue reading

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