Open Thread for feb 8

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The focus of this week's readings are on the ethical "evolution" of Butler's work. I thought I would start an open thread to get us started thinking and reflecting. Here are a few questions:

  1. How does Butler describe/discuss/imagine ethics in these readings?
  2. What common themes do you see emerging in these essays?
  3. How do they fit/don't fit?
  4. Any particular passages that you want to read really closely on Tuesday?

Here's a clip from a documentary on Butler, Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind.

   

Starting at 5:10, Butler reflects on themes that resurface throughout her work and how she's not interested in imagining her work as an [ethical] system. The entire video is available at Walter Library. 

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