A review by indumugic
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative by Judith Butler

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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.