…very much. I'm truly honored to be here. Why? The saddest texts I've read lately are Jacqueline Miller's Ruminations on Judith Butler and the Transgender Movement, a document of his provincial spirit and growing irrelevance. This text in itself shows why the…

…I want to quote briefly from The Guardian newspaper, Suzanne Moore praised Judith Butler's reduction of sex to gender. Quote, Butler writes, If the immutable character of sex is contested, this construct called sex is as culturally constructed as gender.…

…the surface of politics and become an object of such venom and hatred that we've not. I mean, they were burning effigies of Judith Butler in Brazil when she visited three years ago. It's really out of control. And Bolsonaro even said he wants to put an…

…later work. Yeah. Everybody focuses so much on that work. struggle life and death and so on and so on. Okay, against Judith Butler and so on, he makes an important point because Judith Butler really thinks that Hegel's lesson is conflict doesn't work. We…

…and death and so on and so on. Okay, against Judith Butler and so on, he makes an important point because Judith Butler really thinks that Hegel's lesson is conflict doesn't work. We need mutual recognition. No, Hegel's lesson is exactly the opposite one.…

…ideally, I will now try to provoke you what you will say. You know, my big problem with my otherwise personal friend Judith Butler, That's a nice philosopher. Yes, but you know what's my problem with her? What she portrays as her subversive position, that…

…tell you, I believe in norms. And it's interesting to read how, for example, a lot of this, for example, let's take Judith Butler. I think there is an absolutely clear, even brutally violent normative dimension in her work. You know where you find it?…

…desires, how society suggests us to do it, is still passionate sexual love. It's something much closer to deconstructionist Judith Butler theory. Don't get overtly attached, experiment with yourself, reconstruct yourself, discover new freedoms and so on. So I…

…on it's difficult to imagine anything more brutal, violent than passionate love. Look, let's say you are a modern deconstructionist Judith Butler person. You reconstruct yourself, you run around, you have one night stands, drinks, then you fall in love. It's…

…call a kind of slightly spiritually enlightened consumerism, like hedonism, like be truly who you are, or as my friend Judith Butler would have put it, and here I'm slightly ironic towards her, Don't fixate your identity too much. Reconstruct yourself every…

…and so on, you know. The norm is considered D3, reconstruct, reinvent yourself. I quote in a very evil way Judith Butler, you don't have a fixed identity. You should always aware that yourself is a performative construct of enacting different roles…

…questionnaire, a letter. And it was so implicitly racist. Like, first question was, do you, like, kind of a vulgarized Judith Butler, do you think that woman has an eternal essence, or do you think that feminine identity is performatively constructed through…

…She didn't throw me out. Maybe even I, then afterwards, I thought, hello. And then again, I went through the standard Judith Butler ritual, apologizing, you know. And she gave me the same treatment. Slavoj, we know, basically her message was, we all know…

…with Ernesto Laclau because the problem I find, and he himself, I quote him in the big triple orgy book, me, Laclau and Judith Butler, namely Ernesto Laclau He's for, as we all know, populism as the new name that we should use, blah, blah. But he…

…on resistance, like we can resist, blah, blah. It's no longer this co-optive pessimism. And I find, this is my problem with Judith Butler, you know. The big order of power is here. We can just occupy spaces, resist, blah, blah, all that. But I don't…

…accept this. In itself, it's a big mess. And here, although at other points I disagree with her, here I agree with Judith Butler, where she pointed out how The basic, this would be the minimum of what you mentioned, this surplus enjoyment as opposed to…

…enjoyment will persist. Because it simply displays onto the very rituals act of getting rid of enjoyment. Here, I agree with Judith Butler, who in her, I think, best book, something about culture, I forgot. wrote that the repression of desire always turns…

…on our earth. This is what one commonly hears, no? Modesty, we are not the center of the world. Or to quote Judith Butler, an inhabitable world for humans depends on a flourishing earth that does not have humans at its center. We oppose environmental…

…sister, it's not Antigone. Now let me prove it. You know, When we try to grasp why Antigone does it, I like Judith Butler, but here I have some misunderstanding with her. We usually take the Judith Butler global humanist line. We quote that, I think,…

…why Antigone does it, I like Judith Butler, but here I have some misunderstanding with her. We usually take the Judith Butler global humanist line. We quote that, I think, overrated passage about the unwritten laws older than gods themselves, which prescribe…

…active stance, like I would let them rot. So we can see here how Antigone is the very opposite of this Judith Butler humanist world ethic stance of just... This is basically, although I like her book, Antigone's Claim, her... Universal liberal humanist,…

…woman or man or once people annoyed me, but when you say woman, you are, you know, binary, heterosexual. Then I went on and Judith Butler was so mad at me because I said, okay, I will do it in a politically correct way. Then another being. woman, man,…

…good friend, or even we theoretically hate each other, send each other to Gulag and so on. But personally, we are friends, Judith Butler. We were once in a normal conversation, and then I did something. I must admit it. Don't be afraid. Nothing against…

…Houston, or whatever, undermining the power of these images from within. Let's go further to the big understanding. or misunderstanding, Judith Butler. Right, that's actually, I didn't ask you about that, so good. Yeah, you didn't ask me, but your big…

…rituals themselves. And he says, In the beautiful way, in one chapter, I forgot which one, of her Psychic Life of Power, Judith Butler points out how this reversal, and she puts it very nicely in openly Hegelian terms, how, for example, the prohibition of…

…and so on and so on, mystifications and so on and so on. But then I will stop. I talk too much. Back to Judith Butler. So where is my misunderstanding? Okay, I will try to be because I do appreciate her as a You know why? Because she nonetheless,…

…up. I'm not hypocritical. I would like to learn from you where I am wrong and so on and so on. Because Judith Butler, maybe she was right. Once she claimed... the time too traumatized when I speak about inherent transgressions by my socialist background.…

…at the past is always overdetermined by our modernity. And that's even my big question in my friendly but nonetheless polemics with Judith Butler. You know that I always, when we met sometimes years ago, I always ask her a simple question. And can you,…

…when we met sometimes years ago, I always ask her a simple question. And can you, maybe, no, you are not now changing into Judith Butler for me, but can you answer me this simple, sorry, I will stop. No, no, go ahead. It's a naive question. When he…

…it's factually true, in a subjective sense, it's a lie. I want to go back one step and say what you would tell Judith Butler about gender identity being a construct, Marx would tell the world about class. And what he would say is that Only after…

…whatever. It's nonsense. So in this sense, in this sense, you know, I try to be here more radically. So this is back to Judith Butler. I think that her notion of what she dismisses as fundamentalism and so on and so on is not simply... wrong, but it's…

…become will finally become realist and unfortunately my first target I here disagree although I'm personally in good relations with her with Judith Butler who this summer I think in a speech on Hegel also provides a vision of this. We are not yet there,…

…point, which he then, of course... undermines through its imminent self-deployment. But what's the problem here? What does Judith Butler miss here? Let me recall the passage from Phenomenology in which After analyzing the infinite judgment of phrenology,…

…way Der Geist ist ein Knochen is the most vulgar materialism, but also the speculative, the highest speculative truth. Where does Judith Butler get it wrong? Hegel's point here, it's such a simple point, but many people don't get it. It's not that, ah,…

…go through terror. Only the terror opens up The way for later, maybe it's not clear, reconciliation. And I think that's what Judith Butler doesn't see. She acts as if there are idiots who think we are individualists, blah, blah, but we should be wise…

…whole Hegel's social political thought focuses on a free society of people Mutual recognition, we know very well. Fukuyama, Fukuyama, or Judith Butler and these... Yeah, precisely, and I like it very much. She would have killed you for this, and that's why…

…very much. She would have killed you for this, and that's why I'm on your side, that you brought the two together. Fukuyama, Butler, no? And we can talk about it, why this doesn't work. The second feature is... You can clearly see it, although they deny…

…with Comrade Stalin and so on, you know. And so what's Hegel's point here? Here, I again, in a friendly way, disagree with Judith Butler. Hegel's point is not we made a mistake there. Yes, there is another option to do it better. But you have to go…

…No, no, wait a minute. I am not totally against Antigone vulgar. And I've learned my feminism. Think about your friend Judith Butler. Sorry? Think about your friend Judith Butler that you love so much. I love so much her personally, but not theoretically.…

…totally against Antigone vulgar. And I've learned my feminism. Think about your friend Judith Butler. Sorry? Think about your friend Judith Butler that you love so much. I love so much her personally, but not theoretically. Because, you know, if you read…

…Goethe famously said that. He wished that this was not... Yes, but it is. And even typically, unfortunately, she does the same, Judith Butler. No, I think, and I agree with Judith and other great feminists who point out that the beauty of Antigone is not…

…personally, but here, now my provocations begin. You will hear many of them. Here I have a problem with my good friend Judith Butler. She still attacks very much this patriarchal hegemony. But my reproach to her is this model of sexuality that she is…

…only way to be authentic. That's definitely what I don't think. But now I will make another point. My friendly disagreement with Judith Butler. Did you read her text published a couple of weeks ago on Donald Trump? I think here it was published in London…

…paradox. I will conclude with a very friendly adventure that I used here a couple of times as an example. Apropos Judith Butler, this time it's very gentle. You know, some gestures are needed, although they are totally superfluous and a deadlock. But you…

…you an example. This is my old problem with somebody whom I otherwise appreciate, he is a great mind, Judith Butler, you know. He is an anti-essentialist. We don't have fixed sexual identities, biologically or theologically determined. Gender identities,…

…and so on. That's why I also have a problem, although personally we are in good relations with my big philosophical nemesis, Judith Butler. I agree with her. She gives the correct description of what is happening today. You know, we no longer have less…

…But this is my conflict with, among other things, with one with whom I have good relations personally, but not theoretically, Judith Butler. I think she's way too much a traditional liberal for me. Her reason is nonetheless... We should expand our scope to…

…when she speaks of Hegel, my God, I haven't met her in the last year, so I wanted to ask her. Sorry, she is Judith Butler. She quotes positively Edmund Burke. As he saw the complexity and so on, the revolution shouldn't violate it and so on and so…

…know what always fascinates me more and more? And so that I don't only behind her back speak bad things about her. Judith Butler once said a nice thing. She said that in our society today, where the reality of continued patriarchal dominance is masked by…

…the season you are totally responsible for it. And that's where I would correct this usual pseudo, she's not so stupid, pseudo Judith Butler playful attitude. lgbt identity oh i play today i'm gay tomorrow i'm hetero then i'm asexual and so on and so on…

…it is superfluous. Like it happened to me, I'm ashamed to mention it, but I was the bad guy. Once I was together with Judith Butler, and I behaved badly, I used some lesbian bitch dirty, okay, I was incorrect, I'm sorry, I was guilty. So I felt bad,…

…society... You yourself, in your most intimate self-experience, relate to yourself as an abstract individual. And I tried to convince once Judith Butler, and I think I almost succeeded, that she is a good Cartesian. That the whole point, in this sense, that…

…Now, how does this apply to the divided subject? Please, have a little bit patience and let's go through. Let's go through Judith Butler. I will try to... I want to control, confront, sorry, in a very... No, no, no, I don't have any problem here.…

…be proud of it. And that's why we welcome immigrants. You are the real cowards. Okay, let's go on. So I said Judith Butler, Lacan, subjectivity. What does this mean? This will be, I warn you, a little bit more theoretical. Recently I reread that, I…

…is incomplete. Our identity is never fixed, always open. However, The precise status of this incompleteness is different. For Butler, the part of subjectivity excluded or ignored by interpolation is historically variable and as such submitted to possible…

…excluded part can be reintegrated into subject symbolic identity. You get the point. It's a very simple one. For Butler, the hegemonic Patriarchal binary heterosexual normativity excludes totally or puts in a subordinate position other sexual identities. So,…

…in itself. A part is a priori excluded. The bar that divides the subject is eternalized. A substantial quote from Judith Butler. The notion of the uncompleted or barred subject appears to guarantee a certain incompletion of interpolation. You call me this,…

…point is not... Her polemic is precisely against this... how should I call it, discourse theory. Her target, explicitly, is Judith Butler, that sexual difference is the result of discursive discourse, discursive formation, and so on. No, her point is simply…

…And I think this position is For example, in my long-standing debates, personally I am in good relations with her, with Judith Butler, we always end up at this point. She accuses me of being not historicist enough, Kantian, like formulas of sexuation, this…

…any natural balance to return to. going back to this fluidity of sexual identities. Here I again had a very friendly debate with Judith Butler. Years ago, the problem was this one. I told her, and again, she probably thinks she gave me a good answer, I…

…you But it's your new freedom. Isn't it wonderful? You can recreate yourself neoliberal, still talking, use the language of Judith Butler. You can deconstruct, reconstruct yourself performative every couple of months and so on and so on. In view of the…

…I am serving, enslaved to my unconscious, to whomever, is the first act of freedom. And here I nonetheless agree with Judith Butler, with all my disagreements with her, who said that the first step of feminism, before you even liberate yourself, you must…

…today's theoreticians who are generally perceived as subversive or whatever. For example, and I have personally good relations with her, Judith Butler. The problem for me with her is that what she describes as this subversive model, you know, no rule of…

…versions of LGBT in the United States, the idea is under the false, she disagrees with it privately, influence of Judith Butler, that... We should treat gender identity as just a free play of performative enactment, ironic repetition, reconstruction, and so…

…so on. So here, okay, read the triple, I call it the triple orgy book. The one, hegemony, whatever, co-written by me, Judith Butler, and Ernesto. There you can see the conflict. And as to... Political efficiency. It's clear how Ernesto was looking for a…

…so on. Okay, I'll put it clearly in these terms. And I put it as provocatively and openly as I can. My problem with Judith Butler, with whom I have good personal relations and so on, no problem there, is this one. What is my basic reproach to her?…

…and so on. So... The problem here for me is this one. On the one hand, of course, we all agree, in some sense, Judith Butler is right. We should not appeal when we fight for feminism to some, I don't know, deeper feminine essence or whatever. But at…

…feminism to some, I don't know, deeper feminine essence or whatever. But at the same time, where I don't agree with Judith Butler type of performative feminism, which at the end even undermines itself, she doesn't want even to be called as feminist, is…

…is not just the result of this performative games and so on and so on. And my proof... is this one. The way Judith Butler is sometimes read, she's much more intelligent, in this playful way, we construct our sexual identities and so on. My God, I met…

…do you think that... a woman has an eternal essence, or do you think that femininity is performatively constructed through, like Judith Butler, you know? And they just laughed, like, wait a minute, what's going on? So I know well what is cultural... What…

…It's only later, remember, that she gives the real reason. That traumatic part, which was a horror for everyone from Goethe to Judith Butler, who also doesn't like it in her book on Antigone, where she says, it's only for my brother. Remember that famous…

…means precisely don't fall. Don't get attached, keep distance, This is my eternal problem with otherwise my personal friend Judith Butler. I agree with her description. You know, sex, sorry, our sexual identity is not eternally naturally given. It's…

…all of a sudden something gets stuck, interrupts the flow. And we, this, what, to use the term introduced by Judith Butler, this excessive attachment to a particular Zionist. Here I disagree with Heidegger because Heidegger thinks as if you know, like...…

…belief, most naive belief. Far from being skeptical. Why? Let's just look at it at the stylistic level. My good friend Judith Butler, my not so good friend Jacques Derrida or whoever, how can you directly identify them? They are afraid to say, this…

…there is no Herrschaft domination, but that domination itself becomes unspeakable. What do I mean by this? Once I had a debate with Judith Butler. who I think was here a couple of times in Vienna, you know her. I had many polemics with her, but at one…

…a problem with my theoretical enemy, personally, good friend, maybe she's known here, the big, okay, she doesn't want to be called feminist, Judith Butler. Once I used some dirty words with her and so on, okay, I was rude, I admit it. So I felt bad,…

…or shadow, whatever, tears. Yes, tears, I fear no evil, and so on. Now, what is this and so on? First, you have the Judith Butler version. I like it. Against this, making fun of this binary logic. Although I walk in the valley of tears, I fear no…

…everyday life practices. For example, take apology. Is she popular here, the big West Coast feminist from United States, Judith Butler? I have very ambiguous relationship with her. Theoretically, we are in Poland. It's personally, I have relatively good…

…problem, which I appreciate her greatly. She wrote one of her best books, I think, still is on Hegel. I'm talking about Judith Butler, of course. My problem with her is just this. The type of subjectivity that she describes, and I know she's not Deleuze…

…game? For example, it's not a big example, but one theoretician that interests me a lot is Wendy Brown, the partner of Judith Butler. who recently wrote a wonderful book, I forgot the title, on tolerance, where she points in a wonderful way what is…

…Only in this way can they avoid asking the very simple question, what if their in the sense of, for Judith Butler, every sexual identity is a historical contingent product. For Ernesto Laclau, every political identity is a contingent discursive product. To…

…a man likes me or two men like me so that you will not accuse me of binary logic whatever Yeah, this is where Judith Butler was furious of me, you know. Because once I debated and I said, okay, two women, three men, because she's always attacking me…

…of satisfaction generates the additional pleasure. And although I'm often in polemics with her, but here I would advise you to read Judith Butler. In her best book, I claim, it may surprise you, Psychic Life of Power, she has a very good chapter on…

…true hardline deconstructionist. Like, okay, I had recently a friendly fight with her, so I will use my good enemy friend, Judith Butler. She would never say, this is a can of Coke. She would say, if we accept the phallogocentric referential functioning of…

…practices and so on and so on. For example, to give you one aspect of this ideology, often, and I know that Judith Butler is aware of this problem, this theory that gender identity is not biologically determined, you know, is often read in a fake,…

…according to Nietzsche. So a lot of you are feeling fragile. We have a lot of fragility, or what our friend Judith Butler calls fragility. precariousness that probably is deepening and intensifying. We have a lot to talk about, a lot to think about…

…my job. Then comes some postmodern theorist of society of choice and so on, and tells you something like, almost copying Judith Butler, incidentally. But isn't it wonderful that you are given the free choice every half a year or year to reinvent yourself?…

…in the developed Western countries is no longer patriarchy and so on. It's precisely this type of, let's call it, watered-down Judith Butler, you know. Judith Butler, okay. Yeah. watered down in the sense of this common perception of let's not have a…

…countries is no longer patriarchy and so on. It's precisely this type of, let's call it, watered-down Judith Butler, you know. Judith Butler, okay. Yeah. watered down in the sense of this common perception of let's not have a transfixed identity. We need…

…itself, joyfully experimenting with combinations of different identities. The paradigmatic theorist of this new form of subjectivity is Judith Butler. And although she insists on its subversive character, it is easy to demonstrate that such a subjectivity, you…

…those wandering excesses, how to integrate them, that's for me still a liberal perspective. And this got me into trouble once with Judith Butler who doesn't want to be called liberal, but I told her that's still your problem. You want to include into it…

…the universe? It's a very nice question and because this is usually, and I claim it has some strength the argument, the Judith Butler argument, that we, by we she means especially John Kobb, Jack and me and now Alenka Zupanchich, all of those who refer…

…sexuality? I claim in some sense subjectivity is over and so on so things are so open but my ultimate reproach to Judith Butler who made this reproach about non-historicity is that look I developed this in our triple orgy book Ernesto Laclaus you know…

…man or one's wife or People annoyed me, but when you say woman, you are, you know, binary, heterosexual. Then I went on and Judith Butler was so mad at me because I said, okay, I will do it in a politically correct way. Then another being, woman, man,…

…journal in the United States, a wonderful argumentation for precarious work, which, that's the irony, explicitly referred to Judith Butler and all those who advocate this kind of experimentally constructed nature of human identity. They say precarious works…

…country, Slovenia, where now the right wingers also have a big campaign where the enemy is, all the honor goes here to Judith Butler, the enemy is gender theory. They claim that they sound almost like Plato, who in his Republic, when he attacks music, he…

…the real. It implies referring to the binary, binary, man, woman, for this Miller deserves death penalty. I mean, he speaks like Judith Butler here. Man, woman is a binary. No, it's not. As if living beings could be partitioned so neatly when we already…

…is two things. How, first, Miller, in order to pursue this line of thought, all of a sudden becomes Butlerian. referring to Judith Butler. That is to say, she reduces sexual difference to a binary symbolic operation. Men do this, women do that, and so…

…because we Lacanians are often accused of being dogmatic and so on and so on. I had many fights with followers of Judith Butler concerning this, and they always claim, like, why are you such a dogmatic? And I tell them, okay, I can immediately enumerate…

…where I clearly point at unresolved problem in Lacan. Lacan, show me one passage in your work where you do the same to Judith Butler. And this, with my friend, Avital Ronel. I don't know if you know it, I had a wonderful experience in Sass Fe. She…

…speculative process. Or another example that I often mention here. Sorry if I'm repeating old points. It's my old story with Judith Butler, and she doesn't like me repeating it, which is why I'm repeating it, of course. I'm an evil guy. The problem…

…And the questions that the Americans addressed to them was, I'm not kidding, like the first question was like a vulgarized Judith Butler question. Like, do you think that women have an eternal feminine essence? Or do you think that woman's identity is the…

…yourself, no. It's something like a vulgarized version. She's my friend, I appreciate her. A kind of vulgarized version of Judith Butler, you know. Reconstruct your identity all the time, don't fixate yourself, experiment with your life, and so on and so…

…I claim it functions in this way. And that's my big, we can disagree here, but I have a great admiration for Judith Butler. But this is my problem with her, to put it very brutally. What she's describing as this subversive model of no patriarchal…

…and Amsterdam that gay communities were first well disposed towards Muslims. But then Muslims start to attack gays publicly. Okay, Judith Butler, I admire her for this, did the heroic thing. Because as a reaction to this, gay community made some…

…go on, please. You said in the first day that capitalism I will now give you a lesson. You are obviously an agent of Judith Butler here, who is my friend personally and so on, no? And again, I made this point, but it's extremely important. I even used…

…So, you know, no matter how you want to get rid of it, you cannot. Now, back to your point. Why are you a Butler revisionist? I always had this conflict with Judy. I think it concerns the notion of the real. If you understand of the symbolic, it's…

…the Bunga Bunga room and so on, you know. You know, this is what I definitely don't like. I here agree with Judith Butler, who said that the most she speaks here about, although she's not usually a feminist, a feminist emancipation, that that The way…

…is done to them but what others are simply doing? Because this is for example what I know happens in Berlin and Judith Butler I think went a little bit too far there. supporting gay rights and then she rejected the medal because gay Nonetheless, again,…

…there is no Herrschaft domination, but that domination itself becomes unspeakable. What do I mean by this? Once I had a debate with Judith Butler. who I think was here a couple of times in Vienna, you know her, and we have many, I had many polemics…

…either to spend more now, or I cannot even get a long-term permanent employment. They tell you, almost comically imitating Judith Butler, but you see, you can performatively reconstruct yourself, a new freedom to redefine yourself and so on and so on.…

…I have theoretical disagreements with her, you can find here some nice lines in what I argue is the best book by Judith Butler. I think she made a mistake messing with all this stupid gender studies stuff. She put her stuff with Hegel's stuff, if…

…to this stuff where we were, yes. So again, this is the first paradox of of jouissance, excessive enjoyment. Again, back to Judith Butler. You know, this is the logic. You're obsessional neurotic, you establish a set of rituals to keep at a distance the…

…And I remember when there was, some ten years ago there was at UCLA a conference on Spinoza. from Gallipard to Badiou, Judith Butler, and so on. And there was some guy there who fanatically defended Spinoza, and of course, he couldn't ignore, I think…

…his doubt was actually one of the best ever written books on Hegel. It's so sad, we cannot get the money. Me and Judith Butler, we tried to push. Beautiful title, La passion du concept, the patience of the concept, of the notion. Gerard Lebrun is his…

…let me just finish this rape line. I must, years ago developed a line which but many, including my eternal friend and enemy Judith Butler, agreed with me, at least up to a point. You never know with her. Does she really agree or not? No, sorry. What…

…archetypal about drives and so on. They are contingent symbolic constructs and so on. Lacan even here you can see where Judith Butler goes a little bit too quickly. even locates the very discovery of Oedipus complex, Freudian, at a certain moment. And it's…

…you need the form. Even with feminists, feminism is like this. My good friend, personally, we have some debates theoretically, Judith Butler, made this point nicely. She once wrote that the first step of feminine liberation is to fully admit your…

…hedonism, you know? Do it, but first be creative, change partners, experiment, reinvent yourself. And then here I can quote Judith Butler, this performative in acting, or Catherine Malabou, plasticity and so on. The point being, as fake Buddhists would have…

…in French meant opening up philosophy to women readers. No, also, once I had a nice conversation, friendly this time, with Judith Butler, and she agreed. I told her, look, for me, the world that she's trying to say this, you know, contingent, performative…

…This is why, although I had many polemics with her, I agree here with, personally, we are nonetheless friendly, Judith Butler, who claimed how the first subversive act in, okay, she doesn't consider herself a feminist, but nonetheless, in feminist…

…means precisely, don't fall. Don't get attached, keep distance, This is my eternal problem with otherwise my personal friend Judith Butler. I agree with her description, you know, sex, sorry, our sexual identity is not eternally, naturally given, it's…

…your authority, precisely. And you can see this, I had a conflict with whom, I forgot, I think with Avital Ronel and Judith Butler once here years ago, when I claimed that Kafka's letter to his father... They claim it's horrible, the paternal authority. I…

…Fanon, you know, how to make an aseptic, politically correct Fanon, not too violent and so on. And again, it's the same, even Judith Butler is not clear here. I think she wrote somewhere that there is a paradox of some symbolic shift where no one is…

…appearances and here I'm with radical feminists like here I agree with okay she's not a feminist doesn't want to be Judith Butler who told me that precisely in our liberal permissive societies domination is never presented as such. And the first step of…

…I just want to say how in... I developed this much more in detail in that triple orgy book, Hegemonies, whatever, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and me, namely how this works even for theory. For example... How a concept which is clearly a misunderstanding,…

…take over. Truly revolutionary point. Now comes the point that I want to make today. You know the, let's call it the Deleuze, Judith Butler narrative. It's not quite fair. I know they are not the same, and it's more defined, but at least what I will…

…ask her, but out of politeness I didn't, would have been, is this your family polemics? I mean, because... My problem with Judith Butler is that she mostly writes as if the enemy is still some kind of patriarchal, identitarian logic. No. As Wendy made it…

…is not necessarily an oppressive structure. It is more complex. Look what happened to me with my theoretical opponent, personally good friend, Judith Butler. Once I was tasteless towards her and used in my style some dirty words and so on. So I felt bad.…

…don't know, with apologies, with my, maybe you know it, you can Google her, it's not, my theoretical enemy, personally good friend, Judith Butler, gender trouble and so on. Once, I behaved very rude towards her, in a friendly way, but I used vulgar words,…

…give you a confession. This happens to me with my good theoretical enemy, personal friend, I hope I'm allowed to say this, Judith Butler. When we were last summer together in some summer seminar, I, vulgar person as I am, I did something brutal. I used…

…something like... self-hating internal terrorist, shit. They call them shit. Point two, and you find that many of our friends, Judith Butler is there of course, Avital Ronel, 4,000. What shocked me is that every person is described in an extremely aggressive…

…general problem about where we are today. Here I have a problem with my personal friend, but we have some theoretical conflicts, Judith Butler. I don't know if I mentioned this. I appreciate her very much, but not the usual books, which are more her. For…

…liberals totally misunderstand him. No, I'm serious. They think that the point of Agamben's homo sacer and so on is Judith Butler here misunderstanding. homo, hominy, whatever, are those who are, you know, not fully integrated outsiders living in this gray…

…Sorry? I think so. That's what I was afraid of. Once I had a nice conversation with Wendy Brown, the lesbian partner of Judith Butler. She laughed so much. I told her, how can you be a beautiful woman, a lesbian? yourself from half of humanity, man.…

…their nature to be anti-Semitic. If I may put it ironically, in this naturalist, it has nothing to do with some Judith Butler cultural construction. It's simply in their genes' nature. If You know, they were always a little bit also against Israel. Now,…

…if you read classical deconstructive works from 20, 30 years ago by Derrida or my personal friend, theoretical enemy, Judith Butler, the first thing that strikes the eye is the incredible amount of quotes, sorry, quotation marks and conditional formulations.…

…and conditional formulations. You know, you will never get them to simply say, for example, my own ironic example, if you ask Judith Butler, what is this? She wouldn't like to say this is a glass of water. She would say, if we temporarily, for strategic…

…no evil, because... And then you have the politically correct version. I laughed. I think I told her, she was mad at me, to Judith Butler, that probably she was... I walk in the valley of shadow, but I fear no evil... Because I know that good and evil…

…Greenblatt, University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, on Shakespeare and the Limits of Hatred. Most recently, Judith Butler, Maxine Elliott Professor, University of California, Berkeley, presented on the frames of war. The Stanley Fish Lecture…

…a volume where the event, I think, was organized by Wendy Brown, and then you have text by Talat Azad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Shaba Mahmoud, a kind of a debate between the Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, school of whatever you call it, whatever I…

…you have text by Talat Azad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Shaba Mahmoud, a kind of a debate between the Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, school of whatever you call it, whatever I would have called them would be denounced as wrong, so I don't. And let's…

…weak, limited, fragile, and with a broken heart. This is, I think, the liberal core also of Emmanuel Levinas, to which Judith Butler also subscribes, when she focuses on the fragile symbolic status of a human subject, caught in the abyss of dissenters,…

…very identity hinges on an external inconsistent network. It is this precarious status of subjectivity which According to Levinas and Butler, here they agree, accounts for the zero level of all ethics. The absolute call, injunction, emanating from a vulnerable…

…real of a violent encounter which throws me off my existence as simple human animal. The irony here is that with Judith Butler, the way she describes this encounter of the other in its precariousness and fragility, mortality, and so on, that this…

…and so on, that this description has exactly the same structure as in Alain Badiou, the structure of immortality, eternity. And Butler is fully justified to emphasize that this ethical injunction, this encounter of the other, as fragile and so on, is at…

…outside and interrupts the narcissistic circuit." I think that something is terribly wrong here. Psychoanalysis is constrained, by Judith Butler, to the narcissistic economy of egotistic aggression and its super-ego reversal. And then, of course, the conclusion…

…covered all those, you know, if you're in Berkeley, the nice mountain behind the campus, all the rich professors, like the Judith Butler area, to be concrete. But then it stopped when you approach Oakland, the pure area, politically progressed. I think we…

…it, the hegemonic ideology directly consumerist self-recreation. So again, this is to go to this eternal, already boring debates with Judith Butler and so on. This is where I think this anti-essentialist oppression, you know, we shouldn't be fixed to a…

…to do with religious spirituality, that is just the new form of emerging anthropology, where the idea is almost like Judith Butler Foucault, that through practice you have to reform yourself, and that's why he finds a wonderful underlying concept where he…

…Goethe claimed this must have been a later insertion. It cannot be, it's so vulgar the idea. at my friend enemy even Judith Butler in her book on Antigone goes into this like it's not only brother brother everyone is embarrassed by this motive but for…

…not like, I want to seduce a woman or a man or many women or many men. This is, I do always to annoy Judith Butler. Okay, let's be against binary logic. Not only one partner, more partners. So instead of just, I don't know how animals do, swelling…

…don't know, with apologies, with my, maybe you know it, you can Google her, it's not, my theoretical enemy, personally good friend, Judith Butler, gender trouble and so on. Once I behaved very rude towards her, in a friendly way, but I used vulgar words…

…are Fukuyamaists I claim even like let's take somebody like my good theoretical friend no sorry theoretical enemy practical friend Judith Butler I mean her universe for me fits perfectly liberal capitalism All she wants is, you know, like all the excluded…

…give you a confession. This happens to me with my good theoretical enemy, personal friend, I hope I'm allowed to say this, Judith Butler. When we were last summer together in some summer seminar, I, vulgar person as I am, I did something brutal. I used…

…like... self-hating internal terrorist, shit, like they call them shit. Point two, and you find that many of our friends, Judith Butler is there of course, Avital Ronel, four thousand. What shocked me is that every person is described in an extremely…

…are other beautiful examples. For example, she is my friend, although we fight all the time theoretically. Personally, she's my friend. Judith Butler. Recently I met her in Switzerland and I was Not to root to her, but I used some degenerate creep,…

…horrifying to be in such an intense way the focus of all desires of another person. Which is why, do you know that William Butler Yeats famous poem like, be careful how you walk because you are walking in my dreams. It's horrible to be somebody who, as…

…that black cliche, I'm also a warm human person with feelings like you, but to over-eagerly, mockingly, ironically, in what Judith Butler would have called this performative imitation and so on, undermine it. I think that, on the contrary, the ideology of...…

…The ultimate irony is that this critique of ethical violence, it is also incidentally the title of the last book by Judith Butler, but is now published only in German. This critique of ethical violence is sometimes, I think, in a total link to…

…anachronic references to modern culture and so on and so on. So how are we to read it? I can imagine a Judith Butler reading, which would be, yeah, yeah, these are displacement, reinscription, another site of resistance, you know. I don't think that it…

…is not this inaccessible other, but for example, in terms of femininity, and here I agree with my good friend, enemy, Judith Butler, who once was quite justified, I think, in criticizing me for my early... revisionist days when she said that the difference…