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This conversation between Judith Butler and Magnolia Pauker focuses on the intersections among performance, performativity, and philosophy. Butler brings her conceptualization of performativity to bear upon the political dimensions and disciplinary injunctions of Philosophy as an institutional practice in response to the questions pertaining to longstanding traditions of philosophical performance and the emerging field of Performance Philosophy. Deftly refusing all commands to give a clear or final account of herself, or indeed her own work, Butler performs the critical subject as one who transgresses disciplinary boundaries and normative demands.
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Jean-Luc Nancy, in conversation, June 14, 2004.
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Avital Ronell, in conversation, May 22, 2011.
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Butler, J., Pauker, M. (2017). The Scene of Philosophy. In: Street, A., Alliot, J., Pauker, M. (eds) Inter Views in Performance Philosophy. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95192-5_18
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