Notes Toward a Performative Theory of AssemblyNotes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly by Judith Butler is a Times Higher Education Book of the Week. Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analysing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precaritythe destruction of the conditions of livabilityhas been a