Judy!
The final lecture of this year's SCT (I attended them all, and asked a total of three questions) was given by none other than...
JUDITH BUTLER
...in all of her fabulous awesomeness.
The lecture was about what it means to define an academic discipline, and how it relates to dissent. She also spent a lot of time chewing out the Ford foundation. I can hardly imagine what it must be like to be so consistently misread and vilified, on the one hand, and so devoutly idolized (guilty as charged!) on the other. One thing she did a lot in both lectures I've seen her give is make very pointed qualifications of just what she means, but especially just what she doesn't mean, by important statements. My hunch is that's a conditioned addition to the lecture.
JUDITH BUTLER
...in all of her fabulous awesomeness.
The lecture was about what it means to define an academic discipline, and how it relates to dissent. She also spent a lot of time chewing out the Ford foundation. I can hardly imagine what it must be like to be so consistently misread and vilified, on the one hand, and so devoutly idolized (guilty as charged!) on the other. One thing she did a lot in both lectures I've seen her give is make very pointed qualifications of just what she means, but especially just what she doesn't mean, by important statements. My hunch is that's a conditioned addition to the lecture.
posted by Michael Barany at 10:14 PM
2 Comments:
What does an SCT mean again?
I was in a ricksha in Ahmedabad the other day thinking about pubspeaks. Those were cute.
school of criticism and theory...
summer camp for the type of grad student or beginning professor who goes nuts over Judy
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