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Excitable Speech - A Politics of the Performative (Hardcover)
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Excitable Speech - A Politics of the Performative (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Classics
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'When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim
do we make?' - Judith Butler, Excitable Speech Excitable Speech is
widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler's most
important books. Examining in turn debates about hate speech,
pornography and gayness within the US military, Butler argues that
words can wound and linguistic violence is its own kind of
violence. Yet she also argues that speech is 'excitable' and fluid,
because its effects often are beyond the control of the speaker,
shaped by fantasy, context and power structures. In a novel and
courageous move, she urges caution concerning the use of
legislation to restrict and censor speech, especially in cases
where injurious language is taken up by aesthetic practices to
diminish and oppose the injury, such as in rap and popular music.
Although speech can insult and demean, it is also a form of
recognition and may be used to talk back; injurious speech can
reinforce power structures, but it can also repeat power in ways
that separate language from its injurious power. Skillfully showing
how language's oppositional power resides in its insubordinate and
dynamic nature and its capacity to appropriate and defuse words
that usually wound, Butler also seeks to account for why some
clearly hateful speech is taken to be iconic of free speech, while
other forms are more easily submitted to censorship. In light of
current debates between advocates of freedom of speech and 'no
platform' and cancel culture, the message of Excitable Speech
remains more relevant now than ever. This Routledge Classics
edition includes a new Preface by the author, where she considers
speech and language in the context contemporary forms of political
polarization.
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