Abstract

In the article, I seek to analyse the notion of “resistance” in Judith Butler’s work, to examine how the author has deepen her own theory and reflexions. I begin with the concept of “performative subversion”, fundamental in her first works, and then I connect performativity and precarity to finally develop a performative theory of assembly. This article aims at rethinking ways of resistance that radicalise and pluralise democracy, in the meaning that Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe gave to the concept of “radical and plural democracy”.