Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. The author thanks David Ross for his invaluable assistance with the translation and interpretation of this conversation. 2. Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind, DVD, directed by Paule Zadjermann (First Run/Icarus Films, 2006) 52 min. 3. “No Pants Day Is May 2nd, 2008!”, http://www.nopantsday.com/wp/ (accessed 4 July 2007). 4. “No Pants Day Is May 2nd, 2008!”, http://www.nopantsday.com/wp/ (accessed 4 July 2007). 5. Jacques Derrida offers a deconstructive critique of the opposition between “serious” and “non-serious” performative utterances in “Signature Event Context,” in Limited Inc (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988), 1–23. 6. Roger Price, A Concise History of France, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 140. 7. Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), 8. 8. Butler, 36, 39, 50. 9. Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural (Stanford, CT: Stanford University Press, 2000), 3. 10. Nancy, 30. Additional informationNotes on contributorsErin J. RandErin J. Rand is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Fresno. Her research focuses on rhetoric in activism and social movements