Hannah Arendt and the End of the Nation-State?
Starts: 18:30 - 05 March 2007 | Ends: 20:00 - 05 March 2007
Location: Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building - Goldsmiths
Cost: Free
Judith Butler - Hannah Arendt and the End of the Nation-State? - as part of the Richard Hoggart Lecture Series
Judith Butler is one of the world's leading feminist philosophers. Her work has been translated into many languages and hPublisher concepts have entered into the everyday language of the new sexual politics. "Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter" developed post-structuralism, psycho-analysis and linguistics to query and de-stabilise the gender ideals through which we understand normative sexual identity.
In "The Psychic Life of Power" Butler again uses psycho-analysis to understand melancholia in social and political life, and in "Antigone's Claim" she addresses the constraints of kinship and the undermining of non-normative intimacy. More recently in "Precarious Life" Butler shifts her attention to the emerging patterns of violence and vulnerability in the post 9/11 world and in Giving an Account of the Self she develops an argument for radical dependency on others as necessary for survival. Butler has long been involved in activism and campaigning in feminist and queer politics, she is a regular commentator on social and political affairs, particularly in relation to Israel and Palestine and she has also been concerned of late with issues around secularity, non secularity and religious belief.
The top pic is of hannah Arendt, the lower pic is of Judith Butler's door. - evidence of cult following may be discerned. I think some people clearly have too much free time - I know its easy to post pics nowadays, even upload from your camera phone (see here), but this door thing is pretty obscure so far as trinketized idolatry goes. Or maybe there is some sort of commentary on dependency upon others implied here, so I suspend judgement.
1 comment:
My God, she's not even there!
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