A review by riomatchett
The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political by Judith Butler

3.0

K so, like all Butler I think this was both brilliant, and dense af. Her basic argument (I think) is that violence/non violence depends on concepts of demography, ie who is ours (to be protected from violence) or other (the perpetrator of violence). By radically reconceiving our understandings of interdependency (disability studies has been doing this for a long time), we can come to see all violence we enact, physically or systemically, as violence done to ourselves. Like I said, a DIFFICULT READ for me, but worth it. She refers a lot to BLM, and racist systems specifically. If you’re into philosophy/social theory then hard recommend, but deffo not a light read.