Sorry.. Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm Location: Birzeit University, Palestine, West Bank
Actually what I found interesting was how she develops her own conception of "precarious life" regarding grievable/ungrievable life and death and how this violence is suppressed and regulated through media... Afthab Ellath On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:54 AM, venukm <[email protected]> wrote: > Aftab, will you please specify the name of the place/city/country? > On Feb 9, 8:59 am, Afthab Ellath <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Institute of Women's Studies would like to invite you to a lecture by > > Prof. Judith Butler: > > > > Precarity, the Assault on Gaza, or Whose Lives are Grievable? > > Wednesday 10, 2010, 2:00-4:00 PM > > Venue: Hall 101, Institute of Women Studies > > > > Precarity, the Assault on Gaza, or Whose Lives are Grievable? > > > > This lecture considers the relationship between media and war-waging > > violence, and argues for the necessity to include forms of media and > their > > frames in the material of war-waging. Two cases are examined in > developing > > this argument: the photographs of torture in Iraq and their relevance to > > war-waging, and the Israeli assault and siege of Gaza. It is argued that > the > > efforts of states to regulate the representation of their violence, > through > > media, are themselves acts of violence. Two sorts of violence are > operative > > in the work of media: the first suppresses the public comprehension of > > violence, and the second regulates it, and by so doing justifies its > > appearances. Both sets of practices are violent in that they construct > the > > public understanding of what is war, and therefore enable its waging; > they > > constitute a war on the senses and limit what is thinkable. The war on > > perception cannot be separated from the material reality of war. Together > > they result in maximizing the precariousness of targeted populations, as > > opposed to recognizing precariousness as a shared condition. > Differentiated > > precarity marks a distinction between the ungrievable lives of targeted > > populations, and the inherently grievable lives of others. Ungrievable > lives > > are those who cannot be lost, and cannot be destroyed, because they > already > > inhabit a lost and destroyed zone. To destroy them actively might seem > > redundant or a way of simply ratifying a prior truth. One example of such > > deadening before killing is Israel’s insistence that Palestinian children > > operated as human shields for Hamas fighters during Israel’s assault on > > Gaza. Such insistence is meant to convince us that these children are not > > really alive, that they have already been turned to bits of armament, to > > metal, to steal. Ultimately, the body of the child appears as nothing > more > > than a militarized metal, as no longer living, as already dead, and hence > > ungrievable. If conceptual and visual frames transform the life of the > > Palestinians into no life, whereby we must count the dead again and > again, > > those same frames make Israeli lives as the only ones that count as life > to > > be defended at all costs. And yet, the frames through which states wage > wars > > on our senses circulate and exceed states’ control. That loss of control > is > > one source of what can tentatively be called hope. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Green Youth Movement" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<greenyouth%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
