Judith Butler Quotes About Focus

Quotes about: Focus

• I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather, they exploit forms of fear and insecurity that are there for any population - no political organisation of life could ever fully do away with fear and insecurity; but some work to intensify, accelerate, and make more acute forms of fear, and to provide ideological focus for such intensified fears, at which point critical thinking has a fierce rival. The critical analysis that shows precisely how those forms of fear are promulgated, and for what purpose.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Thinking, Psychics

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

• I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.

  Judith Butler

  War, Thinking, Rights

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

• I think something happens only when people find that they are moved with others, find themselves linked or allied in new ways, showing up or speaking out in ways that resonate with one another. That resonating can be very compelling and lead to moving and speaking more emphatically and with sharper focus.

  Judith Butler

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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