I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war. Judith Butler More Quotes by Judith Butler More Quotes From Judith Butler The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure. Judith Butler capture failing shows Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. Judith Butler satisfaction war peace I was off to Yale to be a lesbian Judith Butler yale War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case. Judith Butler produce war people You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity. Judith Butler allegiance particular identity The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered. Judith Butler remembered There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we "should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge." It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability. Judith Butler extraordinary-moments grief revenge I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show that the suppression of debate about Palestine and about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement - within many academic circles - does seek to establish those who would address such issues in speech as already collaborating with "terrorist" regimes, although now only Hamas is officially terrorist according to the US government and its allies. Judith Butler issues circles government Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal opens the way for a more radical form of self-determination, one that happens in solidarity with others who are undergoing a similar struggle. Judith Butler determination struggle self Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare us for war, even enlist us in war, at the level of the senses, establishing a sensate regime of war. Judith Butler levels military war Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there are ways of "registering the facts" that do not lead to outrage. Judith Butler remember facts way I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say. Judith Butler argument be-good want I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen. Judith Butler citizens israel people People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from. Judith Butler who-i-am people needs What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent, it can even be full of antagonism, but all of that can play out in the political sphere without recourse to expulsion or genocide. And that is our obligation, to stay in the sphere with whatever murderous rage we have, without acting on it. Judith Butler political play mean I was born a Zionist, because I didn't have a choice about that. It was the ether of my family life, but I certainly broke with it as I asked more questions about it. And that doesn't mean I want to see the destruction of a people, it means I want to see a state structure that might embody more substantially the basic principles of democracy. Judith Butler choices mean people If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the Israelis into the sea. Now, I would say that most Palestinian politicians on the ground say, of course that's not what we want, and even within Hamas there is some published debate about that claim, but until the claim is removed, it's still noxious. Judith Butler sea writing looks I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights of those who have been expelled already, which would include the various rights of refugees who came to Israel in the aftermath of WWII, but also those from other countries, and what rights the Palestinians have who have been dispossessed of their lands and homes. Judith Butler home country thinking Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity, an ambivalence that emerges from the decentering of the nationalist ethos and that forms the basis of a permanent ethical demand. Judith Butler ethos attachment identity People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model. Judith Butler enmity models people
