Butler, Judith

Frames of War: When is Life Grievable / Judith butler - Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2009. - viii, 194 p.

Introduction: Precarious life, grievable life --
Survivability, vulnerability, affect --
Torture and the ethics of photography : thinking with Sontag --
Sexual politics, torture, and secular time --
Non-thinking in the name of the normative --
The claim of non-violence.

This is an exploration of the current wars, looking at violence, gender and different forms of resistance. Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war.

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Violence -- Political aspects.
Violence -- Social aspects.

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