Notes on Butler, Judith. Precarious Life.
Butler, Judith. Precarious Life : The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London ;; New York: Verso, 2003.
Reading and discussion notes:
SOME WORDS
Violence, Mourning, Politics
Loss (Dispossession)
Body
Life
Community
Social
Mourning (Substitutability, Melancholy, Greiving)
Relationality [22]
Desire [23]
Autonomy [25]
Interdependence [27]
Mourning,Fear,Anxiety, Rage [28]
Violence [28]
Touch
Loss
Violence
Body
Vulneraibility
exposure
ferminism
body
self
other primary condition
I/You
Dehuminaization
paranoia
bounded
Coporea
boundary
enforced boundaries become sites for transgression as soon as they are put in place
naming the boundary, engender a political will
denying the boundary, easier to identify yourself
can not live without th]e We
bounded being [24-25]
dehumanization
should be overcome grief to become active
primary condition- infant at birth, first touch, second touch
deadness= never get a chance because of the environment, less likely to react, lacking political will
dead - lives are more circled around themselves (ego centric), don't want to participate
undead can become more active
FROM DISCUSSION
Meditation that causes the participants to be mindful of corporeal vulnerability, a situation in which we can be vanquished or lose others [29] (but not at the same time trap people in a melancholic state of not knowing or being so overwhelmed as to remain powerless)
Make grieving and mourning foundational, not something to be feared or banished (Milton) [29]
collective responsibility for the physical (and psychological) lives of one another [20]
vulnerable to another range of touch, a range that includes the eradication of our being at the one end and the physical support for our lives at the other. [31] [32]
prior to individuaton (prior to language?)
vulnerability precedes the formation of the ego [31]
the unmarkable death [35]
the unmarked (unmarkable by decree - Creon) the no-event, the non-place, the unreal, dehumanized, undead [26]
feminism as a colonial project [41]
demanding a world in which bodily vulnerability is protected without therefore being eradicated and with insisting on the line that must be walked between the two [42]
insistence on a "common" corporeal vulnerability -- a call for a new humanism? [42]
body as the site of human vulnerability
vulnerability is always articulated differently
speculations on the formation of the subject are crucial to the understanding the basis of non-violent responses to injury and [...] to a theory of collective responsibility (developing a matrix of concern for others) [44]
subject: model for agency and intelligibility (theory of power and recognition) [45]
last paragraph [49]
IDEAS FOR MAQUETTE
utterance- names of Palestinians in memorial San Francisco Chronicle [27]
unmarked images, unutterable names (from where?) [38]
permeable, blurred borders
RESPONSE NOTES
Summary of Butler article
loss? What is lost be heightened security, etc.
Architecture, movement of the bouildings away from the street; Jane Jacobs what make a city alive, the vulnerability of the encounter on a street
The "Berlin Wall" of the United States, the 700 mile border fence separating the United States from the South, the ub
Borders and boundaries become visible sites for transgression (counter power) as well as the systems of power that are deployed to shore up security
Skin as a site for desire as well as a marker for racism
Interdependence, relationality
Not a six degrees of separation or network connection idea (friend who knows a friend) but how
Other ideas not dicussed: ideas of touch, alternative modes of touch, touching a boundary (outside), but touching in a way that permeates boundaries, or feels permeable boundaries (membranes explore this in a sinces,. on reflection of the work)
denial of the greiving process (creon) for political reasons; this is different from denail as a stage of grieving process
Reading and discussion notes:
SOME WORDS
Violence, Mourning, Politics
Loss (Dispossession)
Body
Life
Community
Social
Mourning (Substitutability, Melancholy, Greiving)
Relationality [22]
Desire [23]
Autonomy [25]
Interdependence [27]
Mourning,Fear,Anxiety, Rage [28]
Violence [28]
Touch
Loss
Violence
Body
Vulneraibility
exposure
ferminism
body
self
other primary condition
I/You
Dehuminaization
paranoia
bounded
Coporea
boundary
enforced boundaries become sites for transgression as soon as they are put in place
naming the boundary, engender a political will
denying the boundary, easier to identify yourself
can not live without th]e We
bounded being [24-25]
dehumanization
should be overcome grief to become active
primary condition- infant at birth, first touch, second touch
deadness= never get a chance because of the environment, less likely to react, lacking political will
dead - lives are more circled around themselves (ego centric), don't want to participate
undead can become more active
FROM DISCUSSION
Meditation that causes the participants to be mindful of corporeal vulnerability, a situation in which we can be vanquished or lose others [29] (but not at the same time trap people in a melancholic state of not knowing or being so overwhelmed as to remain powerless)
Make grieving and mourning foundational, not something to be feared or banished (Milton) [29]
collective responsibility for the physical (and psychological) lives of one another [20]
vulnerable to another range of touch, a range that includes the eradication of our being at the one end and the physical support for our lives at the other. [31] [32]
prior to individuaton (prior to language?)
vulnerability precedes the formation of the ego [31]
the unmarkable death [35]
the unmarked (unmarkable by decree - Creon) the no-event, the non-place, the unreal, dehumanized, undead [26]
feminism as a colonial project [41]
demanding a world in which bodily vulnerability is protected without therefore being eradicated and with insisting on the line that must be walked between the two [42]
insistence on a "common" corporeal vulnerability -- a call for a new humanism? [42]
body as the site of human vulnerability
vulnerability is always articulated differently
speculations on the formation of the subject are crucial to the understanding the basis of non-violent responses to injury and [...] to a theory of collective responsibility (developing a matrix of concern for others) [44]
subject: model for agency and intelligibility (theory of power and recognition) [45]
last paragraph [49]
IDEAS FOR MAQUETTE
utterance- names of Palestinians in memorial San Francisco Chronicle [27]
unmarked images, unutterable names (from where?) [38]
permeable, blurred borders
RESPONSE NOTES
Summary of Butler article
loss? What is lost be heightened security, etc.
Architecture, movement of the bouildings away from the street; Jane Jacobs what make a city alive, the vulnerability of the encounter on a street
The "Berlin Wall" of the United States, the 700 mile border fence separating the United States from the South, the ub
Borders and boundaries become visible sites for transgression (counter power) as well as the systems of power that are deployed to shore up security
Skin as a site for desire as well as a marker for racism
Interdependence, relationality
Not a six degrees of separation or network connection idea (friend who knows a friend) but how
Other ideas not dicussed: ideas of touch, alternative modes of touch, touching a boundary (outside), but touching in a way that permeates boundaries, or feels permeable boundaries (membranes explore this in a sinces,. on reflection of the work)
denial of the greiving process (creon) for political reasons; this is different from denail as a stage of grieving process
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