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Judith Butler

I think we are affected by others in all kinds of ways. I do understand what it's like to wish to control the conditions under which we can be affected by other human beings, but none of us really are.

Human, Think, Thinking, Way, Wish
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Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.

Enforce, Incomprehension, Rights, Taken, Thinking, Universal

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

Thinking, Want, Gender, Wide, Crucial, Accept

I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form.

Allows, Needs, Risk, Suggesting, Thinking

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

Collective Effort, Danger, Kind, Pose, Suicidal, Taken

Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.

Jobs, Philosophy, Principles, Stand, Realised
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