Butler on Whitehead : on the occasion / edited by Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, and Deena Lin.

Proceedings of a conference held in Dec. 2009 at Claremont Graduate University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.

Introduction / Michael Halewood -- On this occasion ... / Judith Butler -- After performativity: on concern and critique / Vikki Bell -- Provocative reflections: Judith Butler on subjectivity, objectivity, and moral obligations / Randy Ramal -- Undoing and unknowing: Judith Butler in process / Catherine Keller -- Adventure and risk: exploring creative possibility for true ethical responsibility / Jeremy D. Fackenthal -- Coming out with Butler and Whitehead: opacity, apophasis, and the phallacy of misplaced closetness / Sigridur Guo̐marsdóttir -- The feeling of what matters: vectors of power in Butler and Whitehead / Alan R. Van Wyk -- Khora and violence: revisiting Butler with Whitehead / Roland Faber -- Modes of violence: Deleuze, Whitehead, Butler and the challenges of dialogue / Jeffrey A. Bell -- Language, the body, and the problem of signification / Michael Halewood -- The objects have been equal to the occasion / Astrid Lorange -- Prehending precarity: presenting a social ontology that feels beyond the frame / Deena M. Lin -- Which lives are grievable? / Daniel A. Dombrowski -- Loss of "self," grievability of life, and reharmonizing political potential / Kirsten M. Gerdes -- "A tender care that nothing be lost"-universal salvation and eternal loss in Butler and Whitehead? / Roland Faber -- Occasioned by "on this occasion": more thoughts on Butler and Whitehead / Catherine Keller -- The inappropriate tenderness of the divine: Mono no aware and the recovery of loss in Whitehead's axiology 259 / Matthew S. LoPresti.