FRAMES OF WAR: WHEN IS LIFE GRIEVABLE?

Book ID/图书代码： 13850010B39322

English Summary/英文概要： In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the medias portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection. These people are framed as already lost, to imprisonment, unemployment and starvation, and can easily be dismissed. In the twisted logic that rationalizes their deaths, the loss of such populations is deemed necessary to protect the lives of the living. This disparity, Butler argues, has profound implications for why and when we feel horror, guilt, loss and indifference, both in the context of war and, increasingly, everyday life. In this urgent response to increasingly dominant methods of coercion, violence and racism, Butler calls for a reconceptualization of the Left, one united in opposition and resistance to the illegitimate and arbitrary effects of state violence.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Judith以獨特見解，探討現今媒體所描繪的種種世界亂象。媒體力量是一個國家追求進步過程中不可或缺的方式，而如今卻漸漸變成西方國家作為現代戰爭的工具。這種社會寫照已經充斥我們的生活，並導致剝削和遺棄整個弱勢國家。
許多媒體人的報導，以扭曲的邏輯，合理化弱勢族群的問題，但從中不少隱藏在弱勢人群的激進人士被認為是必要的保護對象。這種差異Judith認為，當我們感到恐懼，內疚，損失和冷漠，無論是在戰爭的背景，以及越來越多的亂象，在這緊急應對日益佔主導地位的方法脅迫，暴力和種族主義，Judith以她研究而概念化來探討，我們應團結一致，反對和抵制非法和任意影響世界的媒體亂象。(Chris)

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Reviews
Urgent yet characteristically thoughtful.---Mark Fisher, Frieze

The tone of Butler’s work conveys a modesty within urgency, a truly delightful need for precision.---Angela McRobbie, Times Higher Education Supplement

Earnest, thought-provoking and uncompromisingly critical.---Nathanial Mehr, Tribune

About the Author/作者介绍： JUDITH BUTLER is Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of many books, including Giving an Account of Oneself, Precarious Life, and Gender Trouble.
Judith生於1956年，先後於班寧頓大學和耶魯大學就學，並於1984年取得哲學博士學位，現為加州柏克萊大學比較文學及修辭學教授。Judith於90年出版之《性別風波》(Gender Trouble 1990)及三年後出版之《造就身體》(Bodies That Matter 1993)中，對權力、性別、性和身份認同的分析批評而受到矚目。

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