Judith Butler, Hélène Cixous, and Avital Ronell approach the notion of affinity through a discussion of disruptive kinship.
Butler is the author of Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?, Gender Trouble, The Psychic Life of Power, Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning, and, with co-author Gayatri Spivak, Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging.
Hélène Cixous, the well-known philosopher, literary critic, and rhetorician, is the author of more than 70 novels, poems, essays, and plays, including Hemlock, The Laugh of the Medusa, Coming to Writing, and Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing.
Avital Ronell is a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School and a professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she co-directs the Research in Trauma and Violence project.
The panel discussion is followed by a piano concert.
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