Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the department of comparative literature and critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015).
Judith Butler
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Writing on Public Books
The Big Picture: Protest, Violent and Nonviolent
Contemporary protests renew debates about whether or not violence is justified, raising questions about what even counts as violence. The demonstrations planned by right-wing groups for late August in Berkeley, to target the teaching of Marxism in universities, were cancelled by their organizers and then briefly revived by a small group of people who sought […]
Can’t Stop Screaming
Every line of Antigonick is printed in boldface handwriting, emphatic, as if something urgent and excessive has to be loudly said. The title and the format suggest that this is a translation of Sophocles’s Antigone with illustrations. From the start, however, contemporary elements intervene: stage directions are inserted within brackets, characters cite contemporary critics, and […]
