Avital Ronell and Judith Butler. Contemporaneity of Philosophy. 2006 3/3

http://www.egs.edu/ Lecture with Avital Ronell and Judith Butler at European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies department, focusing on contemporaneity of philosophy. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland 2006

Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and an American feminist and post-structuralist philosopher interested in feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, ethics, zionism, israel, oppression, academic freedom and cultural narrative. Judith Butler is the author of Giving An Account of Oneself; Undoing Gender; Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence; Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek); Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death; The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection; Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative; Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"; Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France.

Avital Ronnell, is a Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University. Her research interests include literary and other discourses, feminism; philosophy, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and performance art. She is the author of The Test Drive (2005), Stupidity (2003), Stupidity; The Test Drive (2001), French translation forthcoming by Galilee Press, France, The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989), Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986/1993), and Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millenium (1994)

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[Nostressinthefarwest]

@neve1073

It's a word that A. Ronell says in the video n° 2 at 5:09 but I don't understand. I think it's a joke that we can't understand (I mean, the Europeans who don't speak english). Can you help us ? The word is like...re-intensy ??

[rajasmasala]

haha, her hands are like chomsky's

[kchamps]

this vid is great, but it's nothing (for me at least) compared to actually being there during this particular seminar, having been their student in individual classes, and then sitting in on this. i feel dumb...

[crassconversational]

butler is all rhetoric--what are you talking about? butler attempts these paradigms, while ronell performs with the intent to make you cringe--

[godwiththelyre]

Ronell's style is just more informal than Butler's. I think she's really interesting and cute.

[TenduYou]

I totally agree. This whole series needs more Butler, less Ronell!

[neve1073]

Ronell is not over her head! I really liked her foulcauldian riffs.

[neve1073]

thanks for posting these.

i couldn't hear what judith said that made everyone laugh at 4:54--right before avital segues into benjamin's critique of violence.

[scholar196]

TV is a form of state control of the mind. The "State" do not want independent minds, but submission minds. I agree with Butler.

[maystacey]

watch now as butler diplomatically throws a floatation device to ronell here. and ronell needs to have a conversation with mahmood re: fundamentalism. what she started to argue made me cringe.