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2011 Mary Flexner Lecturer: Judith Butler

December 2, 2011
by Medb McGearty
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Musings on Mental Illness and the Ethics of Co-Habitation

In Judith Butler’s final lecture “Towards an Ethics of Co-Habitation” she presented ideas of co-habitation and ethical responsibility to others.  In weaving the threads of her argument, she pointed out our interconnectivity as social beings who are now, more than … Continue reading

November 3, 2011
by Medb McGearty
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Perversion, Prohibition, and Abercrombie and Fitch

Recognizing the absence of something points to its very existence, or, to follow Butler’s use of the Lacanian theory of desire, to deny something is to reference it.  Butler relates this theory in The Force of Fantasy: Feminism, Mapplethorpe, and … Continue reading