The Psychic Life of Power

Name: The Psychic Life of Power
Author: Judith Butler

by Judith Butler

Examination of subjection and subjectivity formed through internalization of power

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Judith Butler

American philosopher whose Gender Trouble proposed that gender is not a natural given but a performance that is repeatedly enacted. The book launched queer theory as an academic field. Her concepts of performativity and the heterosexual matrix have been enormously influential across the humanities and social sciences.

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Gender TroubleFoundational queer theory arguing gender as performed identity rather than essential category
Bodies That MatterExploration of how bodies are constituted through iterative performance of norms
Precarious LifeEssays on vulnerability, grievability, and human precarity in conditions of war
Frames of WarAnalysis of how visual frames determine what lives are seen and grievable in war
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of AssemblyEssays theorizing assembly and political action through bodily and collective performance