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ralowe's review against another edition
5.0
while i was reading this i couldn't stop thinking about rap and direct action. i don't really know why except for no other reason that it feels connected to the ideas of agency connected to language, that seems to operate through the language itself, that is the language like a living thing. i'm reading this back to back with kaja silverman's subject of semiotics. there's something super '90s about this book. i don't know why judith butler irritates so many people. she appears to be very rigorously community minded. what's she's writing here is a way that philosophy can be applied to lived experience. she's talking about what it's like to have your entire life forged in language. i don't really know what she's insinuating in that people can perhaps look the other way at slurs. thinking about redeploying and repurposing language that hurts us is always so tricky. it's so fraught with danger. nobody can come out clean. maybe it's because i conflate purity with ethics. maybe that's all just a delusion...
jolles's review against another edition
4.0
I don't have much exposure to Judith Butler, mostly because I very easily fall into the paradigm of having read Gender Trouble first and then automatically assuming that any and all of her contributions would stem from/take issue with ideas of gender/sexuality/etc. This is incredibly small-minded of me because in reading Excitable Speech I found myself so very taken with the ways in which she explores ideas of trauma and mourning through language. I think where her ideas intersect with Derrida's is a place that could lend itself to very fruitful further exploration and I was so pleased with the reading I was tasked to do in this book for class. What I think I found most disenchanting with Butler's work, and the reason that I can't conscionably give this a higher rating, is the fact that her use of language is seemingly so arbitrary. While this, in and of itself, could be performative of the very things she is trying to explicate in her writing, I find that she either writes with such striking clarity or buries so much of her work in unnecessary jargon that is basically unreadable. Regardless, this book just made me want to read Precarious Life.
natbaldino's review against another edition
4.0
Read alongside J.L. Austin's How To Do Things with Words.
And who said that early Butler wasn't clear and concise? This definitely was. If only this line of thinking was present for GT
And who said that early Butler wasn't clear and concise? This definitely was. If only this line of thinking was present for GT
unfoldingdrama's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
tidtiltanker's review against another edition
5.0
Fantastisk. Intet mindre kan gøre det. Jeg har allerede brugt Butler til en million universitetsopgaver, og jeg har tænkt mig at bruge hende til en million mere
indumugic's review
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
If someone convinced you that reading Judith Butler's work is difficult, this is your cue that it is not. This is the first time I picked up her work, and it was eye-opening, and brilliant. I'm going to go on a reading spree of her other books. Excitable speech investigates language as a scene of injury than its cause. In particular, she argues that utterances can attain a resignification over time, and such an insurrectionary speech becomes a necessary response to injurious language.
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