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Tag Archives: Judith Butler
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
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
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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Tagged insurrection, Judith Butler, LGBTQ+, revolt, revolution, Stonewall Riots
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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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Tagged anti-capitalism, Feminism, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Louis Althusser, Silvia Federici, suffragettes, Virginia Woolf
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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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Tagged Judith Butler, LGBTQI, Maurice Blanchot, Paul B. Preciado
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I don’t want to be strong. I want to be vulnerable.
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “[A]ll public assembly is haunted by the police … Continue reading
Transfeminism: The promise of freedom in feminism
Our struggle is every day, we are women and not commodities. Against capital, anal pleasure; Against the vatican, clitoral pleasure; Against patriarchy, pleasure everywhere. I was a saint, I was a witch, I was a whore, but I will did not silence myself. … Continue reading
Shards of time amid spaces of rebellion
This essay is the child of an earlier reflection on time and revolution, as well as of work on the 15th of May movement in spain, Pasolini and anti-fascism, and other essays posted on Autonomies, from which it borrows generously. … Continue reading
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 →