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- adjective Of or relating to Samuel Butler (1835–1902),
iconoclastic Victorian author . - adjective Of or relating to Judith Butler (born 1956), American
philosopher involved withfeminism ,queer theory , andethics . - noun An advocate of a form of
Lamarckism put forward by Samuel Butler and Ewald Hering
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Examples
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Yes, yes, yes eventually the Butlerian Jihad will allow us to re-overthrow the Thinking Machines and establish human rule but do we really want to fall into that trap?
Matthew Yglesias » Spitzer: Let’s Condemn the Human Race to Slavery and Extinction 2009
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If a new movie can get people to know and embrace all that universe and concepts (The Bene Gesserit, the Mentats, the Butlerian Jihad, the Makers, Chai hulud, etc, etc, etc,), I think it's well worth the try.
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Now, I feel that the ending was uniquely Butlerian, unachievable by another author of either gender.
MIND MELD: Which SF/F Books Have The Best and Worst Endings? 2008
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The "new Dune" (Brian's stuff) was second-rate at best, and the Butlerian Jihad was third-rate.
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I couldn't even get half-way through the first book in the Butlerian Jihad trilogy.
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Not that I advocate a Butlerian Jihad or something, to those that get the reference.
Choices, choices 2010
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One more thing: I always thought that a class on religion and science fiction at Butler University ought to be called "The Butlerian Jihad", but I'm not sure whether enough students have read Dune to get the joke...
Describing Religion and Science Fiction James F. McGrath 2009
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I'm not trying to make a Judith-Butlerian distinction, here.
So Hillary Clinton gave Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a large plastic button with the word "overcharge" on it. Ann Althouse 2009
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The Butlerian jihad is followed in time by the Fremen jihad and that too will lead into decadence.
Re-reading Dune Tripp 2009
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Why did we all not know and accept this instinctively without having to create and/or buy into the Foucaultian and Butlerian (to name but two) nightmares with the obtuse vocabularies they invented and demanded be utilized to pierce their dark inchoate spectacles of a world of their own imaginings.
Larry Kramer: Review: Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain's Age of Reform 2009
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