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2011 Mary Flexner Lecturer: Judith Butler

September 16, 2011
by Mary Zaborskis
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Now You See It, Now You Don’t

In Judith Butler’s “Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia,” she unpacks another illusion for us: the difference between “seeing” and “reading.” We often think we’re doing the former, which suggests a neutral way of viewing an object, but more often … Continue reading