Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

by Judith Butler. - Cambridge (Mass.) ; London : Harvard University, 2018. 248 p. ; 21 cm

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Author(s)

Judith Butler

Publication, year

Cambridge (Mass.) ; London : Harvard University, 2018

Scope

248 Pages, 21 cm.

ISBN

9780674983984

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Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, they extend their theory of performativity to show why precarity destruction of the conditions of livability is a galvanizing force and theme in today's highly visible protests.

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Keywords

activisme / activism , filosofie / philosophy , commons

Location

Cabinet 31 - 4: Sociale praktijk / Art and Society

Contains

notes , index