Judith Butler: Possibility

Judith Butler is American philosopher and gender theorist. Explore interesting quotes on possibility.

Judith Butler: 30 quotes11 likes

“Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.”

Judith Butler book Undoing Gender

Source: Undoing Gender

“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”

"Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time" (1997), which received first place in the Philosophy and Literature Bad Writing Contest

“Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.”

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (1993)