Judith Butler. The Powers of Memory in the Little Things

On 8 October 2020, in the framework of the 2020 edition of the Politics and Aesthetics of Memory Chair, directed by Chilean theorist Nelly Richard, American feminist theorist Judith Butler gave a lecture based around the idea of memory outside hegemonic readings of history. She began by reflecting on the virtual medium of the lecture she was presenting, on a situation that brings us together but creates a longing for contact and encounter as it leaves us in solitude. She went on to refer to the right-leaning and volatile political situation in the United States on the eve of the election and in the midst of the pandemic, characterising it is as necropolitical exhilaration. She also contrasted this context with the resurgence of Black Lives Matter, at once a movement and a slogan, and also an archive of live, just as Richard has put forward. Finally, her lecture centred on a reading of Marx from a feminism perspective, connecting the exist/resist of Palestinian claims and the performance “Un violador en tu camino” by Chilean collective Las Tesis. The lecture was followed by a conversation with Nelly Richard and Ana Longoni.
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the Hannah Arendt Chair and is a Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School (EGS). Her work, initially focused on gender studies, also sets forth notable reflections in the field of ethics, politics and human rights. She is one of the foremost intellectuals of our time.

[@patriciabargero4887]

Qué lástima que no la hayan subtitulado. Quienes no manejamos inglés quedamos afuera...

[@hugosanchez6593]

La herramienta CC (el subtitulado automático) no está tan mal, tal vez no es exacto y algunas cosas pueden quedar fuera (o la traducción es demasiado literal) pero uno puede "llenar los huecos".

[@iosefcaro]

Butler es una genia

[@juanpandu]

Butler suele parecer una genio hasta que se retoma la lectura de los clásicos y ahí empieza a devenir en charlatana. ;)

[@henryisaacpena5940]

Y la ingobernabilidad del pueblo es para exigir el derecho pleno a la libertad gay. Hay todavía resistencias sociales frente a la libertad sexual y el derecho a ser gay. Persecuciones detrás de las parejas, insultos, violencia silenciosa que va creando esa sociodicea que hace creer que las normas sexocomportamentales y cisheteronormativas son irreprochables e incuestionables.

[@Arorep]

[@iosefcaro]

Qué es todes ?

[@jesuslozanofuentes5123]

Su Cosmovisión de la realidad!?! Tal vez cada uno ve la realidad a su manera

[@iosefcaro]

@@jesuslozanofuentes5123 siii mucha ideología feminazi como gay no me va eso

[@jaimita69]

Parece un jubilado de mi pueblo

[@lorenalara6130]

Lamentable que siendo un programa del Reina Sofía, presentada desde Chile y permiten que impere el inglés asumiendo que todos debemos entenderlo. Hace perder la brillantez y se contradice del propio discurso de Butler.