{"id":3787,"date":"2009-09-22T16:59:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2010-02-16T17:41:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T21:41:40","slug":"butler-frames-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/09\/22\/butler-frames-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"butler frames of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Butler, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Frames of War<\/span>. New York: Verso, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The point, however will be to ask how such norms operate to produce certain subjects as &#8220;recognizable&#8221; persons and to make others decidedly more difficult to recognize.  The problem is not merely how to include more people within existing norms, but to consider how existing norms allocate recognition differentially. What new norms are possible, and how are they wrought? What might be done to produce a more egalitarian set of conditions for recognizability?  <strong>What might be done, in other words, to shift the very terms of recognizability in order to produce more radically democratic results?<\/strong> 6<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, every normative instance is shadowed by its own failure, and very often that failure assumes a figural form. The figure lays claim to no certain ontological status, and though it can be apprehended as &#8220;living,&#8221; it is not always recognized as a life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What one is pressing for, calling for, is not a sudden break with the entirety of a past in the name of a radically new future. The &#8220;break&#8221; is nothing other than a series of significant shifts that follow from the iterable structure of the norm. 169.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Butler, Frames of War. New York: Verso, 2009. The point, however will be to ask how such norms operate to produce certain subjects as &#8220;recognizable&#8221; persons and to make others decidedly more difficult to recognize. The problem is not merely how to include more people within existing norms, but to consider how existing norms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/09\/22\/butler-frames-of-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;butler frames of war&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,78,80,120,102,55,16,15,106],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abject","category-butler","category-citationality","category-frames","category-iterability","category-normative","category-ontology","category-subjectivity","category-the-act","tag-frameswar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4904,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions\/4904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}