Now, it would be easier to say that today’s drunkenness or, indeed, these movements of drunken congregations, are characterized by drunk bodies that come together to make a claim in pubic bars, but that formulation presumes that public beer halls is given, that it is already public, and recognized as such. We miss something of the point of public drunkenness, if we fail to see that the very public character of the these bars are being disputed and even fought over when these crowds gather. So though these movements have depended on the prior existence of beer hall, tavern, and dive, and have often enough gathered in dives, like Louie’s, whose revelry history is potent, it is equally true that the collective actions collect the space itself, gather the beer and peanut covered floor, and animate and organize the architecture.
Drunken Misquote of Judith Butler