By Jeff Stein In this post, I will claim that improvements to the speech environment are central to the projects that we’ve been engaging with this year. I will argue that this conclusion follows from a text that ostensibly places… Continue Reading
By Julian Huertas The March 27 session of the 13/13 seminar series was another opportunity to deal with the leading question raised in the Critique & Praxis 13/13: What is to be done? Since the topic addressed by the guests… Continue Reading
By Julian Huertas When Judith Butler published her Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (hereinafter Notes) on 2015, she had in mind recent events like the Occupy Movement, Tahrir Square protests, Puerta del Sol, Gezi Park and the like.… Continue Reading
Published in Critical Inquiry: Vol 39, No 1 (2012) The political phenomenon that was born in Zuccotti Park in the fall of 2011 and spread rapidly across the nation and abroad immediately chal-lenged our vocabulary, our grammar, our political categories—in short,… Continue Reading
By McKenzie Wark Published in Public Seminar Judith Butler‘s Notes Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly (Harvard, 2015) is a series of occasional pieces which, taken together, show both the extraordinary range of her thought, and perhaps also some of its… Continue Reading
Required books Bargu, Banu. Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2016. Butler, Judith. Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. Harvard University Press, 2015. El-Ariss, Tarek. Leaks, Hacks, and Scandal: Arab Culture in the Digital Age.… Continue Reading
The Praxis 13/13 seminars can be accessed virtually and you can fully participate in the series from a distance. Here are some ways to be part of the seminar even if you are not physically at Columbia University in New… Continue Reading