Judith Butler and Marxism

Elliot C. Mason is a communist writer and organizer based in Stockholm. He is the author of Poetics of Value: Temporalities of Sociality and Subjection in the Value-Form, and The Instagram Archipelago: Race, Gender, and the Lives of Dead Fish, and the editor of a South Atlantic Quarterly special issue dossier, Vol. 124:1, titled “Organizing Care in Sweden’s Crisis”.Valentina Moro is assistant professor in the Philosophy department at Stony Brook University. Her research intersects feminist philosophy, political theory, and classical antiquity. She authored the monograph Il teatro della polis. Filosofia dell’agonismo tragico and co-edited the special issue of The European Journal of English Studies titled “Feminist Responses to Populist Politics”.

Judith Butler and Marxism demands confrontation, not comfort. It exposes the systems that dominate us all, where Butler’s radical theories collide with Marxism’s fiercest critiques. Care and vulnerability, far from passive states, emerge as tools of resistance capable of standing against capitalist brutalities. Their force continues to resist compliance.

• Acknowledgments, Elliot C. Mason and Valentina Moro Introduction, Elliot C. Mason and Valentina Moro Part I. Performativity Chapter 1. Performing Gender, Performing Capital, Bruno MonfortChapter 2. Assembling Antagonisms in Butler and Marxist-Feminism, Elliot C. Mason Chapter 3. Diasporic Emanation, Unchosen Cohabitation: Judith Butler’s Jewish-Marxist Critique of the Nation State, Fanny Söderbäck Part II: Vulnerability Chapter 4. Bodies in Space, Marina Vishmidt Chapter 5. Enacting Vulnerability as Resistance, Moya Lloyd Chapter 6. Politics of Finitude, Alfred Sköld and Peter Clement Lund Part III: Care Chapter 7. The Unfamiliar State in Times of Ungrievable Loss, Sara Edenheim Chapter 8. Living Together, Elena Loizidou Chapter 9. Care as Critical Methodology, Zona ZaricIndex About the EditorsAbout the Contributors