In demonstrating this precarity, these bodies also resist these powers and enact a form of resistance that presupposes and mobilizes vulnerability, upending its usual conception as a condition to be overcome. In many public assemblies, the demand to end precarity is enacted publicly by people exposing their vulnerability to failing infrastructural conditions and police power plural and performative bodily resistance shows how bodies are being acted on by policies that are decimating livelihoods. Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and formerly the Maxine Elliot Chair in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program. This notion of a supported, agentic body is at work in any number of political movements: struggles for food and shelter protection from injury the right to work and affordable health care protection from police violence, war, and illness mobilizations against austerity and precarity, authoritarianism and inequality. No one moves without a supportive environment and an enabling set of technologies. AJ CharltonPerez, MP Baldwin, T Birner, RX Black, AH Butler, N Calvo. Douglas papers document his professional and personal life from 1764-1908. This article takes up the work of Judith Butler in order to present a vision of ethics that avoids two common yet problematic positions: on the one hand, the skeptical position that ethical norms are so constitutive of who we are that they are ultimately impossible to assess and, on the other hand, the notion that we are justified in. The very term “mobilization” depends on an operative sense of mobility that many people cannot take for granted. Judith PerlwitzNOAA Physical Sciences LaboratoryVerified email at . Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.
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