Notre Dame review of Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
"The public assembly of bodies only becomes political by being theorized" allegedely implicit in Butler’s way of proceeding. " And “theory” here means “displacement, comparison, a certain distance. To theorize, one leaves home.” Theory is the activity of reflecting on oneself, and to reflect means to compare oneself with and to relate oneself to one’s other. Such a reflection is by no means just an intellectual requirement. It is a political requirement — the requirement of the political."
"No assembly of bodies is political in itself. It only becomes political by connecting with other assemblies. And in order to do this, not only media are needed (cf. 92) but also concepts. Precarity is not just an empirical condition; it is the theoretical representation, and interpretation and explanation, of an experience."
And finally comeout to the question of organization, thus leninism.
"The public assembly of bodies only becomes political by being theorized" allegedely implicit in Butler’s way of proceeding. " And “theory” here means “displacement, comparison, a certain distance. To theorize, one leaves home.” Theory is the activity of reflecting on oneself, and to reflect means to compare oneself with and to relate oneself to one’s other. Such a reflection is by no means just an intellectual requirement. It is a political requirement — the requirement of the political."
"No assembly of bodies is political in itself. It only becomes political by connecting with other assemblies. And in order to do this, not only media are needed (cf. 92) but also concepts. Precarity is not just an empirical condition; it is the theoretical representation, and interpretation and explanation, of an experience."
And finally comeout to the question of organization, thus leninism.
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