Table of Contents

Introduction - Annemie Halsema, Katja Kwastek, Roel van den Oever
Performativity
On Butler's Theory of Agency - Adriana Zaharijevi?
The Psychic Life of Horror: Abjection and Racialization in Butler's Thought - Eyo Ewara
Beyond Gender(s) - Jean-Luc Nancy
Speech
The Performative Edge of Non-Politicians: Populism and Shifting Legitimacy in US Presidential Politics - Julia Peetz
Talking Back as an Accented Speaker? Reframing Butler's Idea of Subversive Resignification - Tingting Hui
What's in a Name? Don't Ask, Don't Tell and Private Romeo - Roel van den Oever
Precarity
Rethinking Counseling from a Relational Perspective: From Alleviating Suffering to 'Becoming Human' - Carmen Schuhmann
Bridging Conversations: 'Paradigm Cases' of Dependency in Eva Kittay and Judith Butler - Simon van der Weele
Dancing the Image: Complicity, Responsibility and Spectatorship - Noa Roei
Santiago Sierra's Workers Who Cannot Be Paid: Precarious Labor in Contemporary Art - Friederike Sigler
Assembly
Rethinking Radical Democracy with Butler: The Voice of Plurality - Adriana Cavarero
Strategies of (Self-)Empowerment: On the Performativity of Assemblies in and as Theatre - Erika Fischer-Lichte
Bodies That Still Matter - Judith Butler
Index

About the Author

Annemie Halsema is Socrates hoogleraar “Wijsgerige Antropologie en de grondslagen van het humanisme” aan de universiteit Leiden en Universitair Hoofddocent Filosofie aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Katja Kwastek is professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Roel van den Oever is assistant professor of English Literature at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.