This week, Judith Butler joins panelists Roy Blount, Jr., Maz Jobrani, and Faith Salie to talk about gender, performativity, and their dream of becoming a clown.

While Butler is most known for their book, “Gender Trouble,” on gender performativity, they focused their lecture on distinctly literary matters.

The philosopher and gender theorist has been denounced, demonized, even burned in effigy. They have a theory about that.

Reviewed Works: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly by Judith Butler, Judith Butler; Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? Butler Judith Arendt Studies is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated ...

The Oration was titled “From Performativity to Precarity” and emphasized how people can re-imagine the enabling conditions of contemporary life. Butler related gender performance to mortality and ...