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Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, she extends her theory of performativity to show why precarity destruction of the conditions of livability is a galvanizing force and theme in today's highly visible protests.

Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

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      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Published 26 February 2018
      ISBN-13 9780674983984
      978-0674983984
      ISBN-10 067498398X
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      Philosophy of mind Political ideologies and movements Political science and theory

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      Book Synopsis
      Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, she extends her theory of performativity to show why precarity destruction of the conditions of livability is a galvanizing force and theme in today's highly visible protests.

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