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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.
Judith Butler
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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
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Cleveland
Ohio
Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.
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