The aim of this paper is to examine how Judith Butler begins to think about the category of the human based on the representational limits produced by the historical and political context of war, as discussed in Precarious Life (2004). By demonstrating Butler s perspective on subject formation based on vulnerability, precariousness and interdependence, a shift is observed from her initial ontological inquiries about gender, sex, and sexuality towards an ethical framework rooted in the vulnerability of human life. In doing so, we will analyze her portrayal of the subject as "besides oneself," drawing on the Levinasian notion of the "face" as an alterity that displaces the sovereign and autonomous sense of the modern subject toward an understanding of shared vulnerability, challenging the univocal conception of the subject and fostering new ways of contemplating non-violent and accountable ethics. This is how the author critiques the media s construction or omission of war narratives, shaping the very definition of what is considered human and what is not, particularly in delineating whose bodies are deemed worthy of mourning and those that are not.