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Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare us for war, even enlist us in war, at the level of the senses, establishing a sensate regime of war.

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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
Art Theorist
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University Teacher
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Cleveland
Ohio
Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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