Same reason as expressed in this thread–I want to change what the output of summarize highlights looks like.
initial output:
# [ahmed interviews butlet.pdf](x-devonthink-item://C102E4EF-878E-4CCB-A158-277C466EB18F)
## [Page 1](x-devonthink-item://C102E4EF-878E-4CCB-A158-277C466EB18F?page=0)
* SA: I have been asked to interview you about Gender Trouble and how this book has shaped the field of Queer Studies. In the preface to the second edition of Gender Trouble, you write that ‘the life of the text has exceeded my intentions, and this is surely in part because of the changing context of its reception’. I really like this description. I like the idea that texts have lives other than the ones we give them as writers, and that these lives are partly about how texts are ‘picked up’.
## [Page 2](x-devonthink-item://C102E4EF-878E-4CCB-A158-277C466EB18F?page=1)
* Could you reflect a little on this textual moment, and also about the extent to which you have drawn on your experience in generating critical insights and why you would or would not make that explicit in the text?
## [Page 4](x-devonthink-item://C102E4EF-878E-4CCB-A158-277C466EB18F?page=3)
* There is, of course, vulnerability in taking the risk, knowing one will be called a name, or worse, but there is also a vulnerability in the name of which one acts, and which informs one’s very acting. After all, responding with indignation to injury means that one has been affected by that injury, and that being affected is not a fully passive condition. Vulnerability can be the condition of responsiveness – something affects us, or we find ourselves affected; we are moved to speak, to accept the terms by which we are addressed, or to refuse them, or, indeed, to skew them or queer them in direc- tions that, yes, as you have shown, deviate from what seem to be their original aims. Indeed, I would suggest that there are two dimensions of gender performa- tivity from the start: one is the unchosen or unwilled situation of gender assign- ment, one that we can come to deliberate about and change in time; the other is performative action that takes up the terms by which we have been addressed (and so a retaking, a taking over, or a refusal), the categories through which we have been formed, in order to begin the process of self-formation within and against its terms.
desired output:
# [ahmed interviews butler.pdf](x-devonthink-item://C102E4EF-878E-4CCB-A158-277C466EB18F)
SA: I have been asked to interview you about Gender Trouble and how this book has shaped the field of Queer Studies. In the preface to the second edition of Gender Trouble, you write that ‘the life of the text has exceeded my intentions, and this is surely in part because of the changing context of its reception’. I really like this description. I like the idea that texts have lives other than the ones we give them as writers, and that these lives are partly about how texts are ‘picked up’. ([Page 1](x-devonthink-item://C102E4EF-878E-4CCB-A158-277C466EB18F?page=0))
Could you reflect a little on this textual moment, and also about the extent to which you have drawn on your experience in generating critical insights and why you would or would not make that explicit in the text? ([Page 2](x-devonthink-item://C102E4EF-878E-4CCB-A158-277C466EB18F?page=1))
There is, of course, vulnerability in taking the risk, knowing one will-be called a name, or worse, but there is also a vulnerability in the name of which one acts, and which informs one’s very acting. After all, responding with indignation to injury means that one has been affected by that injury, and that being affected is not a fully passive condition. Vulnerability can be the condition of responsiveness – something affects us, or we find ourselves affected; we are moved to speak, to accept the terms by which we are addressed, or to refuse them, or, indeed, to skew them or queer them in directions that, yes, as you have shown, deviate from what seem to be their original aims. Indeed, I would suggest that there are two dimensions of gender performativity from the start: one is the unchosen or unwilled situation of gender assignment, one that we can come to deliberate about and change in time; the other is performative action that takes up the terms by which we have been addressed (and so a retaking, a taking over, or a refusal), the categories through which we have been formed, in order to begin the process of self-formation within and against its terms. ([Page 4](x-devonthink-item://C102E4EF-878E-4CCB-A158-277C466EB18F?page=3))