Judith Butler

Visiting researcher at the Maison Suger | April-May 2023

Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of several books in European philosophy, ethics, and critical theory, psychoanalysis, queer theory, feminism, psychoanalysis, and gender theory.

Project

Who among us has not in the last years reckoned with grieving and living on, outrage and resistance? In the wake of war, forced migration, climate destruction, and pandemic, we are perhaps more alert than ever to the questions of living and dying, questions which establish the urgency [pertinence] of critical inquiry at the heart of everyday life. The images and stories that reflect life and death are too brief and sensational for a more patient reflection on how we live now, between grief and affirmation, outrage and resistance. And yet, precarious as life now appears to be, it is in the moments of gathering, whether of ourselves, objects, images, or traces, that some new sense of living emerges that acknowledges the horizons of loss and of acting in concert to create an inhabitable world.

Mots-clés : philosophy, literature, feminism, social theory, the passions

Institution d'accueil : Centre G. Pompidou