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Rosie Wennberg Talks Precarious Life
Billionaire Book Club: A Podcast About Books
English - August 27, 2017 15:33 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsComedy Arts Books book books club comedy fun funny interesting laugh literary read Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Rosie Wennberg joins me to talk about two essays from Judith Butler's Precarious Life (2004): "Violence, Mourning, Politics" and "Indefinite Detention," both of which deal with different post-9/11 American phenomena. The first touches on the universal experience of grief and how it can inform politics, and the second addresses the indefinite detention of humans in the prison at Guantanamo Bay. We try to understand Butler's analysis and Rosie shares some of the more memorable passages.