Enis Demirer’in çevirisi ilk olarak Parıltılar adlı blogunda yayımlandı. Judith Butler presents a lecture and live Q&A chaired by Amia Srinivasan that draws on her new book, which shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality.. So I am not in favour of neutralising the strong political demands for justice on the part of subjugated people. His appeal to nearly half of the country has depended upon cultivating a practice that licenses an exhilarated form of sadism freed from any shackles of moral shame or ethical obligation. AF: Threats of violence and abuse would seem to take these “anti-intellectual times” to an extreme. 2008. 2003. He has shown that he is willing to manipulate and destroy the electoral system if he has to. In the US, counting has always taken a while: that is the accepted norm. Judith Butler. Her latest book is The Force of Nonviolence (Verso), Don't underestimate the threat to American democracy at this moment | Corey Brettschneider, ‘ There is no legal norm that cannot be litigated under Trump.’, US election 2020 live: follow the latest news, results and reaction, Trump v Biden – full results as they come in. It is one thing to posture as the kind of guy who would do untold damage to democracy to hang on to power; it is quite another to make that show into reality, initiating the lawsuits that would dismantle the electoral norms and laws that guarantee voting rights, striking at the very framework of US democracy. If counting continues, Biden may well win. As Trump campaigned to crowds excited by racist violence, he also promised them protection from the threat of a communist regime (Biden?) Thursday 23 July, 5pm. Fascism and tyranny take many forms, as scholars have clarified, and I tend to disagree with those who claim that national socialism remains the model by which all other fascist forms should be identified. If trans-exclusionary radical feminists understood themselves as sharing a world with trans people, in a common struggle for equality, freedom from violence, and for social recognition, there would be no more trans-exclusionary radical feminists. We tend to say that one person should be treated the same as another, and we measure whether or not equality has been achieved by comparing individual cases. But disagreements over biological essentialism remain, as evidenced by the tensions over trans rights within the feminist movement. By gender freedom, I do not mean we all get to choose our gender. Is gender socially constructed, and if so, how? JB: I suppose a debate, were it possible, would have to reconsider the ways in which the medical determination of sex functions in relation to the lived and historical reality of gender. The waning president, however, declares that he has won, but everyone knows he has not, at least not yet. I think this may be wrong. It asked how we define “the category of women” and, as a consequence, who it is that feminism purports to fight for. A peculiarly contemporary form of media-driven narcissism thus morphs into a lethal form of tyranny. We depend on gender as a historical category, and that means we do not yet know all the ways it may come to signify, and we are open to new understandings of its social meanings. ... September 23, 2020… But given that he does not have the electoral numbers, why would he stop it? The only way that contradiction makes sense is if law and order are exclusively embodied by him. Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminist, queer, and literary theory. If you are right to identify the one with the other, then a feminist position opposing transphobia is a marginal position. It would be a disaster for feminism to return either to a strictly biological understanding of gender or to reduce social conduct to a body part or to impose fearful fantasies, their own anxieties, on trans women... Their abiding and very real sense of gender ought to be recognised socially and publicly as a relatively simple matter of according another human dignity. On the one hand, I am an educator and writer and believe in slow and thoughtful debate. 2016. September 24, 2020. questingvole. If Trump were sure to win if the electoral count stops now, we could understand why he wants to stop it. Butler herself has moved on from that earlier work, writing widely on culture and politics. The Force of Nonviolence argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a … Rather, we get to make a political claim to live freely and without fear of discrimination and violence against the genders that we are. If they do favour exclusion, why not call them exclusionary? What is less clear is whether he can do what he threatens to do, or whether the “threat” is left hanging in the air as an impotent command. But feminism would surely survive as a coalitional practice and vision of solidarity. Hitler’s missive was called “Destructive Measures on Reich Territory” but it was remembered as the “Nero Decree”, invoking the Roman emperor who killed family and friends, punishing those perceived as disloyal, in his ruthless desire to hold onto power and punish those perceived as disloyal. 2012. Do you see any connection between this and contemporary debates about trans rights? Judith Butler defends an aggressive nonviolence in her newest book Ryan Di Corpo February 10, 2020 Judith Butler, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, at … I had gathered a daunting impression of Judith Butler as an intellectual heavyweight. We may finally have the chance to let Trump become a passing spectacle of a president who, in seeking to destroy the laws that support democracy, became its greatest threat, opening the way for some rest from what has seemed an interminable exhaustion. Filed under: Groupthink gender identity JK Rowling Judith Butler New Statesman Transphobia. Some of us are shocked that he is willing to go this far, but this has been his mode of operating from the outset of his political career. Although some fault Trump for bringing a business model to governing, setting no limits on what can be negotiated for his profit, it is important to see that many of his business deals culminate in legal proceedings (as of 2016, he has been engaged in more than 3,500 lawsuits). There are trans-affirmative feminists, and many trans people are also committed feminists. On Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). Bring it on, Sleepy Joe! AF: This year, you published, The Force of Nonviolence. In March 1945, when both the allied forces and the Red Army had vanquished every Nazi defensive stronghold, Hitler resolved to destroy the nation itself, ordering a destruction of transportation and communication systems, industrial sites, and public utilities. What do you have to say about violent or abusive language used online against people like JK Rowling? Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance. Democracy requires a good challenge, and it does not always arrive in soft tones. 2013. JB: It is painful to see that Trump’s position that gender should be defined by biological sex, and that the evangelical and right-wing Catholic effort to purge “gender” from education and public policy accords with the trans-exclusionary radical feminists' return to biological essentialism. Feminists know that women with ambition are called. So one clear problem is the framing that acts as if the debate is between feminists and trans people. If the lawsuit that stops the count is accompanied by a lawsuit that alleges fraud (without any known basis for doing so), then he can produce a distrust in the system, one that, if deep enough, will ultimately throw the decision to the courts, the courts he has packed, the ones that he imagines will put him in power. “The social meanings of what it is to be a man or a woman are not yet settled,” she says. Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler*, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. In an open letter she published in June, JK Rowling articulated the concern that this would "throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman", potentially putting women at risk of violence. When laws and social policies represent women, they make tacit decisions about who counts as a woman, and very often make presuppositions about what a woman is. AF: You have spoken about the backlash against “gender ideology”, and wrote an essay for the New Statesman about it in 2019. The secrets that make The Circle the best reality show on television. So the question I was asking then is: do we need to have a settled idea of women, or of any gender, in order to advance feminist goals? Judith Butler (d. 24 Şubat 1956); feminist felsefe, kuir (queer) kuram, siyaset felsefesi ve etik dallarına katkı sağlamış Amerikalı postyapısalcı filozof. And yet others do not wish to be challenged on their racism. He goes to court to compel the conclusion he wants. His allegedly last words: “what an artist dies in me!”. When he calls for an end to counting votes (much like his call to end Covid testing), he seeks to keep a reality from materializing and to maintain control over what is perceived as true or false. If they understand themselves as belonging to that strain of radical feminism that opposes gender reassignment, why not call them radical feminists? We know that Trump will try to do anything to stay in power, to avoid that ultimate catastrophe in life – becoming “a loser”. By Masha Gessen | February 9, 2020 |The New Yorker. AF: The consensus among progressives seems to be that feminists who are on JK Rowling’s side of the argument are on the wrong side of history. JB: I am not aware that terf is used as a slur. - excerpted from Judith's Butler's new book, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political. Men who are feminists, non-binary and trans people who are feminists, are part of the movement if they hold to the basic propositions of freedom and equality that are part of any feminist political struggle. 10 in 2020. JB: My point in the recent book is to suggest that we rethink equality in terms of interdependency. 2011. If he was going down, so too was the nation. Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler*, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Verso. Names: Butler, Judith, 1956- author. I know “downfall” is usually reserved for kings and tyrants, but we are operating in that theatre, except here the king is at once the clown, and the man in power is also a child given over to tantrum with no discernible adults in the room. | Includes index. I disagree with JK Rowling's view on trans people, but I do not think she should suffer harassment and threats. My only regret is that there was a movement of radical sexual freedom that once travelled under the name of radical feminism, but it has sadly morphed into a campaign to pathologise trans and gender non-conforming peoples. The tyrant spiraling down calls for an end to testing, to counting, to science and even to electoral law, to all those inconvenient methods of verifying what is and is not true in order to spin his truth one more time. This website uses cookies to help us give you the best experience when you visit our website. Thu 5 Nov 2020 12.24 EST. It is not. Bu yazı, Judith Butler’ın “The Force of Nonviolence” (Şiddetsizliğin Gücü) adlı yeni kitabından bir bölümün Türkçeye çevrilmiş halidir. “Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.” – J. M. Bernstein Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Others have [allegedly] committed sexual harassment. And by “women” I mean all those who identify in that way. In the early hours of 3 November, Trump called for an end to counting ballots in key states where he feared losing. Judith Butler: "Only if the speaker identifies as marginalized" — Gender Heretic (@OsborneInk) September 23, 2020. Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence. George Yancy’nin Truthout sitesi için Judith Butler ile yapmış olduğu söyleşiyi Türkçeye çevirerek sizlerle paylaşıyoruz. > Judith Butler: “The virus alone does not discriminate, but we humans surely do, formed and animated as we are by the interlocking powers of nationalism, racism, xenophobia, and capitalism. The feminist who holds such a view presumes that the penis does define the person, and that anyone with a penis would identify as a woman for the purposes of entering such changing rooms and posing a threat to the women inside. Judith Butler. 2004. And though Trump is not Hitler, and electoral politics is not precisely military war (not yet civil war, at any rate), there is a general logic of destruction that kicks in when the downfall of the tyrant seems nearly certain. But what has always been distinctive of the Trump regime is that the executive power of the government has consistently attacked the laws of the country at the same that he claims to represent law and order. 2005. judith butler. — Katherine Cross (@Quinnae_Moon) September 23, 2020. yes, judith butler is very articulate, but what she's actually saying isn't that different from what trans people say all the time. Alona Ferber: In Gender Trouble, you wrote that "contemporary feminist debates over the meanings of gender lead time and again to a certain sense of trouble, as if the indeterminacy of gender might eventually culminate in the failure of feminism”. Does the idea of “radical equality”, which you discuss in the book, have any relevance for the feminist movement? Trans women are often discriminated against in men’s bathrooms, and their modes of self-identification are ways of describing a lived reality, one that cannot be captured or regulated by the fantasies brought to bear upon them. If someone then said I should not be read or listened to as a result of those errors, well, I would object internally, since I don't think any mistake a person made can, or should, summarise that person. How far do ideas you explored in that book 30 years ago help explain how the trans rights debate has moved into mainstream culture and politics? or that women who are not heterosexual are pathologised. Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler*, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. I confess to being perplexed by the fact that you point out the abuse levelled against JK Rowling, but you do not cite the abuse against trans people and their allies that happens online and in person. When we went to the polls, we were not voting for Joe Biden/Kamala Harris (centrists who disavowed the most progressive health and financial plans of both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren) as much as we were voting for the possibility of voting at all, voting for the present and future institution of electoral democracy. In that way, shame occupied a permanent and necessary place in the Trumpian scenario insofar as it was externalized and lodged in the left: the left seek to shame you for your guns, your racism, your sexual assault, your xenophobia! AF: In Gender Trouble you asked whether, by seeking to represent a particular idea of women, feminists participate in the same dynamics of oppression and heteronormativity that they are trying to shift. On the other hand, some of those signatories were taking aim at Black Lives Matter as if the loud and public opposition to racism were itself uncivilised behaviour. I put the question that way… to remind us that feminists are committed to thinking about the diverse and historically shifting meanings of gender, and to the ideals of gender freedom. Butler describes gender not as an essential quality of a person, but as "performed," as habits of acting in certain ways in accordance with customs. Most influential people in 2020 in the contemporary artworld. JB: I have mixed feelings about that letter. Save this story for later. I wonder what name self-declared feminists who wish to exclude trans women from women's spaces would be called? It is a sad day when some feminists promote the anti-gender ideology position of the most reactionary forces in our society. But when the president declares himself the winner and there is general laughter and even his friends call him a cab, then he is finally alone with his hallucinations of himself as a powerful destroyer. . Comparative literature and critical theory professor Judith Butler's has taken a leap onstage at New York Live Arts, playing a comparative literature professor like herself in an experimental performance called "Fragments, Lists & Lacunae." 271 | Judith Butler: Then and Now August 13, 2020 by Catherine Carr in politics This week two conversations with the feminist theorist and writer Judith Butler: one recorded the week Trump won the presidency in 2016 and one recorded a few days ago, as … In the light of the bitter arguments playing out within feminism now, does the same still apply? About Judith Butler With the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler became an academic celebrity. If there were no way to know how bad it is, then apparently it would not be bad. JB: I think we are living in anti-intellectual times, and that this is evident across the political spectrum. We fight those misrepresentations because they are false and because they reflect more about the misogyny of those who make demeaning caricatures than they do about the complex social diversity of women. How does Butler, who is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature at Berkeley, see this debate today? We fight those misrepresentations because they are false and because they reflect more about the misogyny of those who make demeaning caricatures than they do about the complex social diversity of women. şükela ... tam bir heteroseksüel iliski taklidi escinseller icin daha özgürlestiricidir. Author Naomi Cunningham Posted on September 26, 2020 October 3, 2020 Tags feminist philosophy JB: As I remember the argument in Gender Trouble (written more than 30 years ago), the point was rather different. So I find it worrisome that suddenly the trans-exclusionary radical feminist position is understood as commonly accepted or even mainstream. When the basic laws supporting electoral politics are litigated, if every legal protection is proclaimed as fraudulent, as an instrument profiting those who oppose him, then no law is left to constrain the power of litigation to destroy democratic norms. The trans-exclusionary radical feminist position attacks the dignity of trans people. Feminism has always been committed to the proposition that the social meanings of what it is to be a man or a woman are not yet settled. There was never any question that Donald Trump would fail to make a gracious and swift exit. The excited fantasy of his supporters was that, with Trump, shame could be overcome, and there would be a “freedom” from the left and its punitive restrictions on speech and conduct, a permission finally to destroy environmental regulations, international accords, spew racist bile and openly affirm persistent forms of misogyny. I think it is actually a fringe movement that is seeking to speak in the name of the mainstream, and that our responsibility is to refuse to let that happen. It assumes that the penis is the threat, or that any person who has a penis who identifies as a woman is engaging in a base, deceitful, and harmful form of disguise. He can litigate as much as he wants, but if the lawyers scatter, and the courts, weary, no longer listen, he will find himself ruling only the island called Trump as a mere show of reality. The quickness of social media allows for forms of vitriol that do not exactly support thoughtful debate. Even Fox does not accept his claim, and even Pence says every vote is to be counted. The Ethical in the Political, Verso, February 2020 Towards a form of aggressive nonviolence. First, one does not have to be a woman to be a feminist, and we should not confuse the categories. The exchange has been edited. Alona Ferber is Special Projects Editor at the New Statesman. She asks if we need to have “a settled idea of women, or of any gender, in order to advance feminist goals,” to which I would say, obviously. Not only has more than half of the country responded with revulsion or rejection, but the shameless spectacle has all along depended on a lurid picture of the left: moralistic, punitive and judgmental, repressive and ready to deprive the general populace of every ordinary pleasure and freedom. 2007. We are equally dependent, that is, equally social and ecological, and that means we cease to understand ourselves only as demarcated individuals. The one who represents the legal regime assumes that he is the law, the one who makes and breaks the law as he pleases, and as a result he becomes a powerful criminal in the name of the law. 2015. And does she see a way to break the impasse? Considered as a legal strategy, however, by a team of lawyers, even lawyers working for the government, it constitutes a serious danger to democracy. The problem, however, is that those powers, even if they generally support him, will not necessarily destroy the constitution from loyalty. Some of them have opposed legal rights for Palestine. Philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler. butler'in lacan olan ve olmayan taraflarini düsünmeye basladigimizda butler'in hakikate ulasmak icin pek caba fsargfetmedigini sadece "bir diamanda galas performansi" ile sorusturdugunu görürüz. But disagreements over biological essentialism remain, as evidenced by the tensions over trans rights within the feminist movement. Butler herself has moved on from that earlier work, writing widely on culture and politics. Women should not engage in the forms of phobic caricature by which they have been traditionally demeaned. JB: Let us be clear that the debate here is not between feminists and trans activists. Those of us outside of carceral institutions lived with a sense of enduring electoral laws as part of a constitutional framework that gave coordinates to our sense of politics. Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot professor in the department of comparative literature and the program of critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley. We live in time; we err, sometimes seriously; and if we are lucky, we change precisely because of interactions that let us see things differently. ... Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot professor in the department of comparative literature and the program of critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. When one has not been heard for decades, the cry for justice is bound to be loud. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates… It won’t do to say that threats against some people are tolerable but against others are intolerable. Bu yazı Kasım 22, 2020 tarihinde Universus Sosyal Araştırmalar Merkezi tarafından yazılmıştır. And by “women” I mean all those who identify in that way. Judith Butler. We have seen this in the domain of reproductive rights. Judith Butler Wants Us to Reshape Our Rage . AF: How much is toxicity on this issue a function of culture wars playing out online? But the idea of law as something that secures our rights and guides our action has been transformed into a field of litigation. Metis Yayınları, çev: Başak Ertür, 2008, notlandıran: Ammar Kılıç Önsöz (1999) 1980'lerde pek çok feminist, lezbiyenliğin feminizm ile lezbiyen-feminizmde buluştuğunu farz ediyordu, Cinsiyet Belası ise lezbiyen pratiğin feminist kuramın bir temsili olduğu fikrine karşı çıkarak bu iki terim arasında daha belalı ve sorunlu bir ilişki kurmayı hedefliyordu. Judith Butler tore J.K. Rowling’s transphobia to pieces in an epic clapback "I think we are living in anti-intellectual times...." By Alex Bollinger Friday, September 25, 2020 Description: Brooklyn : Verso Books, 2020. In 2014, TIME declared a “Transgender Tipping Point”. 2014. Judith Butler Wants Us to Reshape Our Rage. Get the New Statesman’s Morning Call email. Academic - Preeminent American gender theorist. If not for Butler’s work, “you wouldn’t have the version of genderqueer-ness that we now have,” Jack Halberstam, a gender-studies professor at Columbia, once said. Title: The force of nonviolence : an ethico-political bind / Judith Butler. It makes a difference to understand ourselves as living in a world in which we are fundamentally dependent on others, on institutions, on the Earth, and to see that this life depends on a sustaining organisation for various forms of life. 2006. We need to cherish the longer forms. See all our reading for International Women's Day 2020 here . So if we are going to object to harassment and threats, as we surely should, we should also make sure we have a large picture of where that is happening, who is most profoundly affected, and whether it is tolerated by those who should be opposing it. As a posture, the threat to stop or nullify the vote is a kind of spectacle, composed for his base’s consumption. 2009. If he has to lose, he will try to take democracy down with him. 2020 10. If no one escapes that interdependency, then we are equal in a different sense. Issue 89, 3rd July 2020 Judith Butler | American social and political philosopher, and co-director of the International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs, whose first book 'Subjects of Desire' investigated Hegelian reflections in twentieth-century France. 10. Many people who were assigned “female” at birth never felt at home with that assignment, and those people (including me) tell all of us something important about the constraints of traditional gender norms for many who fall outside its terms. The courts, along with the vice-president, would then form a plutocratic power that would enact the destruction of electoral politics as we know it. AF: I want to challenge you on the term “terf”, or trans-exclusionary radical feminist, which some people see as a slur. The fact that such fantasies pass as public argument is itself cause for worry. JB: If we look closely at the example that you characterise as “mainstream” we can see that a domain of fantasy is at work, one which reflects more about the feminist who has such a fear than any actually existing situation in trans life. Her idea of social construction is so totalizing that even biological sex itself is constructed. Butler is arguing against herself. We tell histories about what it meant to be a woman at a certain time and place, and we track the transformation of those categories over time. Women should not engage in the forms of phobic caricature by which they have been traditionally demeaned. that would redistribute their income, take away their meat, and eventually install a “monstrous” and radical Black woman as president (Harris?). JB: I am against online abuse of all kinds. Find this book ... Judith Butler’s The Force of Non-Violence argues that this ambivalence should not undermine ‘the task of critical thought in order to expose the instrumental use of that distinction that is both false and harmful’ (7). Judith Butler is perhaps most famous for two books that she wrote in the 1990s, in which she outlines and challenges notions of gender, sex, feminism and queer theory. Prev Full list Next.