Notes for 23 February 2016
LITCS 114
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Winter 2016
- Presentation by Alyssa Evans: Judith Butler's
Violence, Mourning, Politics
- Presentation by Korrin Alpers: Judith Butler's
The Charge of Anti-Semitism
- Other things (if there's time; if they don't come up already)
- Butler as a writer: what can you say about phrasing, word choice, clarity? How does she structure her essays?
- How does these essays pick up on and work with ideas we've already seen in Foucault?
- How does Butler pick up on and work with Foucauldian notions of power? Of knowledge?
- What about Agamben?
- Where do you see the discussion of the implications of reduction to bare life? Whose lives matter in our society, according to Butler? How does this system of differential valuing come to be constructed?
- How do we balance competing claims of safety, comfort, offense, freedom of speech, freedom to feel safe from harm?