Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

by Judith Butler

In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection. These people are framed as already lost, to imprisonment, unemployment and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1804299839
• ISBN13: 9781804299838
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.