Vulnerability in Resistance
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Zeynep Gambetti is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogaziçi University.
Leticia Sabsay is Assistant Professor in the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Zeynep Gambetti is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogaziçi University.
Leticia Sabsay is Assistant Professor in the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Zeynep Gambetti is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogaziçi University.
Leticia Sabsay is Assistant Professor in the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
In the aftermath of violent histories, the notion of vulnerability can offer an alternative to trauma and its inexorable temporality. Looking forward toward alternative trajectories and an open future rather than backward toward the past, vulnerability can be a starting point rather than a condition to be denied or overcome. Focusing on the work of several artists and writers whose work enacts the transmission of traumatic and violent histories, this essay finds that aesthetic encounters provide a platform for the practice of vulnerability and of resistance. Whether shared or differentially imposed, an acknowledgment of vulnerability can create spaces of connective engagements in vulnerable times.
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