Judith Butler Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

  Judith Butler

  Effort, Violence, Language

  Judith Butler (2013). “Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative”, p.19, Routledge

• So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Suicidal, Collective Effort

  Source: ilga.org

• I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show that the suppression of debate about Palestine and about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement - within many academic circles - does seek to establish those who would address such issues in speech as already collaborating with "terrorist" regimes, although now only Hamas is officially terrorist according to the US government and its allies.

  Judith Butler

  Government, Circles, Issues

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

• I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, War, Thinking

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

• The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not the target and destruction are in any way related to the initial event.

  Judith Butler

  War, Self, Mourning

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

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