Dispossession : the performative in the political : conversations with Athena Athanasiou

Butler, Judith 1956- (Author). Athanasiou, Athena. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780745653815 (pb)
ISBN: 0745653812 (pb)
ISBN: 9780745653808
ISBN: 0745653804
Physical Description: print
xi, 211 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Malden, MA : Polity, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-204) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface -- Aporetic dispossession, or the trouble with dispossession -- The logic of dispossession and the matter of the human (after the critique of metaphysics of substance) -- A caveat about the "primacy of economy" -- Sexual dispossessions -- (Trans)possessions, or bodies beyond themselves -- The sociality of self-poietics : talking back to the violence of recognition -- Recognition and survival, or surviving recognition -- Relationality as self-dispossession -- Uncounted bodies, incalculable performativity -- Responsiveness as responsibility -- Ex-propriating the performative -- Dispossessed languages, or singularities named and renamed -- The political promise of the performative -- The governmentality of "crisis" and its resistances -- Enacting another vulnerability : on owing and owning -- Trans-border affective foreclosures and state racism -- Public grievability and the politics of memorialization -- The political affects of plural performativity -- Conundrums of solidarity -- The university, the humanities, and the book bloc -- Spaces of appearance, politics of exposure.