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Judith Butler Violence, Mourning, Politics (What is the promise of …

- - - - When we speak about
        "my sexuality" or "my gender," as we do and as we must, we nevertheless mean something complicated the is partially concealed by our usage p. 13
        Neither gender nor sexuality is precisely a possession, but rather, is a mode of being dispossessed, a way of being for another or by virtue of another p. 13
        We are not only constituted by our relations but also dispossessed by them as well p. 14
        
        Mindfulness of this vulnerability
        can become the basis of claims for nonmilitary political solutions p. 18
        
        They cannot be mourned because
        they are always already lost or, rather, never "were," and they must be killed, since they seem to live on, stubbornly, in this state of deadness p. 22
        These "others" are spectral
- - - - "successful grieving [does not imply]
        that one has forgotten another person or that something else has come along to take its place, as if full substitutability were something for which we might strive" p. 11
        "One mourns when one accepts that by the loss one undergoes one will be changed, possibly forever" p. 11
        
        Perhaps what I have lost
        "in" you, that for which I have no ready vocabulary, is a relationally that is neither merely myself nor you, but the tie by which those terms are differentiated and related p. 12
        We're undone by each other p. 13
        
        The body implies mortality,
        vulnerability, agency: the skin and the flesh expose us to the gaze of others, but also to touch, and to violence, and bodies put us at risk of becoming the agency and instrument of all these as well p. 15
        Basically our bodies are not totally ours
- - - - "We have all lost in
        recent decades from AIDS, but there are other losses that inflict us, from illness and from global conflict; and there is the fact as well that women and minorities, including sexual minorities, are, as a community, subjected to violence, exposed to its possibility, if not its realization" p. 10
        
        Most of the time when we hear about "rights," we understand them as pertaining to individuals p. 14
- - - - If we have lost, then it follows
        that we have had, that we have desired and loved, that we have struggled to find the conditions for our desire p. 10
        
        Most of the time when
        we hear about "rights," we understand them as pertaining to individuals p. 14