Subversive acts resist predictable or predetermined emancipatory meaning

Evidence

Butler also resists the impetus to tether the meaning of agency to a pre, defi teleology of emancipatory politics. As a result, the logic of subversion and resignifi cannot be predetermined in Butler’s framework because acts of resignifi /subversion are, she argues, contingent and fragile, ap.. pearing in unpredictable places and behaving in ways that confound our expectations. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 154