So, Judith Butler finally emerges into the English language. The results, IMO, are not impressive.
For one thing, Butler seems incapable of distinguishing between "common sense" and "temporization" -- or, as Orwell put it, "double think." People often accede to things they know, deep down, are wrong but that they feel powerless to change.
The only way to deal with this, politically, is to scrape away the self-serving cant of the powerful and privileged and appeal to the innate decency of people at large. (If you doubt this decency exists, of course, you belong with the right, not the left.)
"Politically" is the key word there. I don't think Butler has any understanding of what real politics is about. She seems to live in a Giles Goat-Boy world, where the world itself is but the university writ large and salvation (or at least publishing credits) lies in ever greater pedantic obfuscation.
The American left will not come to life again until it relearns the wisdom of Thomas Paine. "I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense," as the most radical figure of the American Revolution put it. Paine knew what Butler apparently does not: You build a movement not by sneering at common sense but by leveraging it.
Carl Remick