Dispossession

Judith Butler 지음

Polity 2013년 04월 12일 출간

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Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the disenfranchisement associated with unjust dispossession of land, economic and political power, and basic conditions for living? In the context of neoliberal expropriation of labor and livelihood, dispossession opens up a performative condition of being both affected by injustice and prompted to act. From the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa to the anti-neoliberal gatherings at Puerta del Sol, Syntagma and Zucchotti Park, an alternative political and affective economy of bodies in public is being formed. Bodies on the street are precarious - exposed to police force, they are also standing for, and opposing, their dispossession. These bodies insist upon their collective standing, organize themselves without and against hierarchy, and refuse to become disposable: they demand regard. This book interrogates the agonistic and open-ended corporeality and conviviality of the crowd as it assembles in cities to protest political and economic dispossession through a performative dispossession of the sovereign subject and its propriety.

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Preface vii1 Aporetic dispossession, or the trouble with dispossession 12 The logic of dispossession and the matter of the human (after the critique of metaphysics of substance) 103 A caveat about the "primacy of economy" 384 Sexual dispossessions 445 (Trans)possessions, or bodies beyond themselves 556 The sociality of self-poietics: Talking back to the violence of recognition 647 Recognition and survival, or surviving recognition 758 Relationality as self-dispossession 929 Uncounted bodies, incalculable performativity 9710 Responsiveness as responsibility 10411 Ex-propriating the performative 12612 Dispossessed languages, or singularities named and renamed 13113 The political promise of the performative 14014 The governmentality of "crisis" and its resistances 14915 Enacting another vulnerability: On owing and owning 15816 Trans-border affective foreclosures and state racism 16417 Public grievability and the politics of memorialization 17318 The political affects of plural performativity 17619 Conundrums of solidarity 18420 The university, the humanities, and the book bloc 18821 Spaces of appearance, politics of exposure 193Notes 198Index 205

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"Full of fantastic and well-argued insights."LSE Review of Books"What makes political responsiveness possible? With their rich and distinct wealth of philosophical knowledge and continuous political engagements, leading feminist scholars Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou set out to answer this question. Beginning from an awareness that we are all relational and interdependent beings, their lucid, compelling exchanges encourage us all to reflect again on what feminist and queer theory can contribute to the search for forms of collectivity capable of intervening in battles against these cruel and precarious times."Lynne Segal, Birkbeck, University of London and author of Making Trouble"In a series of bite-sized conversations, Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou explore the concept of dispossession and show its links to subjectivity, relationality, occupation, precarity, bio-politics and collective protest. As they push each other for clarification and introduce a range of examples, they jointly craft a new vision of what 'performative politics' might entail."Vikki Bell, Goldsmiths, University of London

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저자(글) Judith Butler

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Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous publications include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of quot;Sexquot;. She is currently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.Athena Athanasiou teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.