January 2012
2 posts
Judith Butler on Peace
I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. It does not mean that we do not have murderous impulses. This is a mistaken way of...
InTensions 5: (De)Fatalizing the Present and... →
james-bliss:
I almost jumped out my chair just now!
New essays from Frank B. Wilderson, III, Jared Sexton, and Tamara K. Nopper, among others.