If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

I was off to Yale to be a lesbian

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?

In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names

It's not my concern. It's your concern. I just keep working. I keep posing certain questions and I think there are times when people think "What happened to the Judith Butler I used to know?" or "She's not doing gender trouble. Does that mean she refuses it or she's disavowed it?" And I would say no. I have not refused or disavowed anything.