Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
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Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative is a theoretical work by Judith Butler that examines how language acts as a form of power, focusing on hate speech, censorship, and the performative force of utterances in shaping political and social realities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative canonical | 1 |
| Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (1997) | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative Context triple: [Judith Butler, notableWork, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative]
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Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics
Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics is Jane Alexander’s memoir recounting her dual life as an acclaimed actress and her tenure as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts amid intense political and cultural battles.
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is a seminal work of social and political theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes the historical rise and decline of the bourgeois public sphere and its implications for modern democracy and communication.
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How to Do Things with Words
How to Do Things with Words is a foundational work in 20th-century philosophy of language by J. L. Austin that introduced speech act theory and transformed understandings of how language functions in practice.
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The Rules of Art
The Rules of Art is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study of the literary field, examining how power, institutions, and cultural capital shape the production and reception of art and literature.
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Can the Subaltern Speak?
"Can the Subaltern Speak?" is a seminal postcolonial feminist essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak that critiques Western intellectual representations of marginalized voices and questions whether the oppressed can truly be heard within dominant discourses.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative Target entity description: Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative is a theoretical work by Judith Butler that examines how language acts as a form of power, focusing on hate speech, censorship, and the performative force of utterances in shaping political and social realities.
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A.
Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics
Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics is Jane Alexander’s memoir recounting her dual life as an acclaimed actress and her tenure as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts amid intense political and cultural battles.
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B.
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is a seminal work of social and political theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes the historical rise and decline of the bourgeois public sphere and its implications for modern democracy and communication.
-
C.
How to Do Things with Words
How to Do Things with Words is a foundational work in 20th-century philosophy of language by J. L. Austin that introduced speech act theory and transformed understandings of how language functions in practice.
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D.
The Rules of Art
The Rules of Art is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study of the literary field, examining how power, institutions, and cultural capital shape the production and reception of art and literature.
-
E.
Can the Subaltern Speak?
"Can the Subaltern Speak?" is a seminal postcolonial feminist essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak that critiques Western intellectual representations of marginalized voices and questions whether the oppressed can truly be heard within dominant discourses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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theoretical work ⓘ |
| author | Judith Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| critiques |
liberal legal approaches to hate speech
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simplistic views of free speech ⓘ state-centered models of censorship ⓘ |
| examines |
conditions under which speech injures
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how utterances shape political realities ⓘ how utterances shape social realities ⓘ paradoxes of censorship ⓘ role of context in speech acts ⓘ |
| field |
critical theory
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gender studies ⓘ linguistic philosophy ⓘ philosophy ⓘ speech act theory ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
censorship as a performative act
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how language acts as a form of power ⓘ legal debates on hate speech ⓘ political implications of speech ⓘ regulation of speech ⓘ social implications of speech ⓘ |
| genre |
academic writing
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philosophy of language ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
J. L. Austin
NERFINISHED
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Jacques Derrida NERFINISHED ⓘ Michel Foucault NERFINISHED ⓘ poststructuralism ⓘ speech act theory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
censorship
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freedom of speech ⓘ hate speech ⓘ injurious speech ⓘ performative force of language ⓘ political theory ⓘ politics of language ⓘ power of utterances ⓘ speech acts ⓘ subject formation ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Bodies That Matter
NERFINISHED
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Gender Trouble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theorizes |
constraints that enable speech
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injury produced by language ⓘ relation between power and discourse ⓘ speech as performative action ⓘ |
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Subject: Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative Description of subject: Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative is a theoretical work by Judith Butler that examines how language acts as a form of power, focusing on hate speech, censorship, and the performative force of utterances in shaping political and social realities.
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this entity surface form:
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (1997)