Profound exploration of the current wars, looking at violence, gender and different forms of resistance.In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, ...
Profound exploration of the current wars, looking at violence, gender and different forms of resistance.In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection. These people are framed as already lost, to imprisonment, unemployment and starvation, and can easily be dismissed. In the twisted logic that rationalizes their deaths, the loss of such populations is deemed necessary to protect the lives of 'the living.' This disparity, Butler argues, has profound implications for why and when we feel horror, outrage, guilt, loss and righteous indifference, both in the context of war and, increasingly, everyday life. This book discerns the resistance to the frames of war in the context of the images from Abu Ghraib, the poetry from Guantanamo, recent European policy on immigration and Islam, and debates on normativity and non-violence. In this urgent response to ever more dominant methods of coercion, violence and racism, Butler calls for a re-conceptualization of the Left, one that brokers cultural difference and cultivates resistance to the illegitimate and arbitrary effects of state violence and its vicissitudes.
... specific lives cannot be apprehended as injured or lost if they are not first apprehended as living. If certain lives do not qualify as lives or are, from the start, not conceivable as lives within certain epistmological frames, then these lives are never lived nor lost in the full sense.
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...to be a body is to be exposed to social crafting and form, and that is what makes the ontology of the body a social ontology. In other words, the body is exposed to socially and politically articulated forces as well as to claims of sociality-- including language, work, and desire-- that make possible the body's persisting and flourishing. The more or less existential conception of "precariousness" is thus linked with a more specifically political notion of "precarity". And it is the differential allocation of precarity that, in my view, forms the point of departure for both a rethinking of bodily ontology and for progressive or left politics in ways that continue to exceed and traverse the categoreis of identity.
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这本书在今年国内外的疫情、美国到欧洲的BLM再到对殖民的反思（但仍然是基于欧美对非洲或其内部黑人的“殖民”）等诸多背景下来看真的是很有启示性。如何定义生物性和社会性的“生命”？真的很想写一个“frames of pandemic”，防疫框架终究也会反噬的。（又想到纸牌屋里下木那句经典名言：we don't submit to terror, we make the terror）
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朱迪斯·巴特勒 作者
Coco
河南大学出版社2016版
哲夫成城
河南大学出版社2016版
1 有用 高槻Queen 2017-07-11 18:25:16
瓦擦还没中文版我要跪了
0 有用 鸿音 2020-12-28 06:12:31
这本书在今年国内外的疫情、美国到欧洲的BLM再到对殖民的反思（但仍然是基于欧美对非洲或其内部黑人的“殖民”）等诸多背景下来看真的是很有启示性。如何定义生物性和社会性的“生命”？真的很想写一个“frames of pandemic”，防疫框架终究也会反噬的。（又想到纸牌屋里下木那句经典名言：we don't submit to terror, we make the terror）
0 有用 Vöuivre💭 2018-11-22 15:25:01
她的argument似乎可以被套在任何paper上用，因为太true了太聪明了 我爱她