Some gain power by saying that they are the law. There is no supervenient law to which one has recou…

Judith Butler — To Imagine A World After This, Democracy Needs The Humanities 20th Feb 2025

Some gain power by saying that they are the law. There is no supervenient law to which one has recourse to correct or check that performative (illocutionary) assertion of law. Any number of conclusions could follow such as revolution, anarchism, radical democracy.

— Judith Butler, To Imagine A World After This, Democracy Needs The Humanities 20th Feb 2025