{"id":27,"date":"2018-08-08T19:18:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T23:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2019-04-19T09:40:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T13:40:31","slug":"11-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/11-13\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/13 | Assemblies &#8211; March 27, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CgjJ8oLyKz4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Robin Celikates,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/scholars\/robin-celikates\">Institute for Advanced Study; <\/a>Joshua Clover, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.ucdavis.edu\/people\/jclover\">University of California Davis;<\/a>\u00a0Marianne Hirsch, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mh2349\/\">Columbia University;<\/a>\u00a0Nandini Sundar,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/nandini-sundar\/\">University of Delhi<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">in conversation with Thomas Dodman, <a href=\"https:\/\/french.columbia.edu\/content\/thomas-w-dodman\">Columbia University <\/a>and Bernard E. Harcourt, <a href=\"https:\/\/cgt.columbia.edu\/about\/people\/committee-faculty\/bernard-e-harcourt\/\">Columbia University<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">read and discuss<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Judith Butler. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674967755\"><em>Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly <\/em><\/a>. Harvard University Press, 2015.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/11-13\/11-13-block\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4726\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4726\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2019\/03\/11.13-Block.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2019\/03\/11.13-Block.png 753w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2019\/03\/11.13-Block-300x70.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tahrir Square, January 2011. Zuccoti Park, November 2011. Taksim Gezi Park, May 2013. Place de la R\u00e9publique, March 2016. Today, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/societe\/article\/2019\/03\/22\/acte-xix-des-gilets-jaunes-les-propos-du-gouverneur-militaire-de-paris-sur-l-usage-du-feu-font-enfler-la-polemique_5439917_3224.html\">Champs \u00c9lys\u00e9es at the \u00c9toile<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20190322-algeria-set-further-mass-protests-against-bouteflika\">Smile Revolution in Algeria<\/a>. The images have now become iconic. The mode of uprising as well. Assembly. Leaderlessness. Political disobedience.<\/p>\n<p>In her <em>Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly<\/em>, Judith Butler explores the power of assembly. Butler draws on theories of performativity\u2014which she helped develop in the context of gender\u2014to suggest that these assemblies enacted a particular form of \u201cwe the people,\u201d one in which the multitude gather to contest their condition of precarity and proclaim loudly to those in power that \u201cwe are part of the people and we are still here.\u201d\u00a0Assembly is the condition of possibility for forming a people that does not act merely as a group of individuals, but as a collective. \u201cThe thesis of this book,\u201d Butler writes, \u201cis that none of us acts without the conditions to act, even though sometimes we must act to install and preserve those very conditions.\u201d (16) Assembly is, in this sense, an act of defiance in the face of domination.<\/p>\n<p>Butler\u2019s writings offer a theoretical entry to a range of issues that, today, surround the assembly as a form of praxis. How does the assembly function, exactly? How should we think about the new element of leaderlessness so common at these social movements? What is the role of non-violence, and is assembly necessarily non-violent? How does assembly, as praxis, relate to the riot, the strike, and the other forms of uprising?<\/p>\n<p>These questions could not be more pressing today, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-algeria-protests\/thousands-of-algerians-rally-to-demand-bouteflika-quit-idUSKCN1R31B3\">hundreds of thousands of Algerians<\/a>\u00a0assembling in Algiers as I write to oust President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and increasingly tense assemblies at the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.rfi.fr\/france\/20190320-military-be-deployed-saturdays-french-yellow-vests-protests\">the Yellow Vests<\/a>. Just this week, President Macron called in the military anti-terrorism units to police the next Act 19 of the Yellow Vests tomorrow. How should we understand and practice assembly?<\/p>\n<p>To address these questions, we welcome four brilliant critical thinkers to our seminar: Robin Celikates from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/scholars\/robin-celikates\">Institute for Advanced Study<\/a>,\u00a0Joshua Clover from the <a href=\"https:\/\/english.ucdavis.edu\/people\/jclover\">University of California Davis<\/a>,\u00a0Marianne Hirsch from <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mh2349\/\">Columbia University<\/a>, and\u00a0Nandini Sundar from the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/nandini-sundar\/\">University of Delhi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Praxis 11\/13!<\/p>\n<p>[Read full post <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-assembly-an-introduction\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a9 Bernard E. Harcourt.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/11-13\/img_7901\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4734\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7901.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7901.jpg 5184w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7901-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7901-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_7901-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Celikates,\u00a0 Institute for Advanced Study; Joshua Clover, University of California Davis;\u00a0Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University;\u00a0Nandini Sundar,\u00a0University of Delhi in conversation with Thomas Dodman, Columbia University and Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University read and discuss Judith Butler. 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