What World Is This? Quotes

“The "health of the economy" was understood to be more valuable and urgent than the "health of the people." ... But the transposition of health onto the economy did not just transfer a human attribute to the markets; it literally drained health from living bodies to establish health for the economy. That has been a deadly form of displacement and inversion within the logic of capitalism that comes to the fore within pandemic times.”
― Judith Butler, What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology

“Triumphant utilitarianism is just another way of saying “let them die.”
― Judith Butler, What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology