°We, the people - in the local style
Update: “Under the Beach the Barbed Wire”
People of whiteness have their seaside rally pogrom. 
°Populism redux
To Kenneth Rufo’s roundup of recent debates on populism over at Long Sunday, I’ll add the fragment on Jean-Luc Nancy on ‘the people’, which comes from the recent essay on democracy, more of which is here, updated with an additional para on ‘the people’, apropos the comments.
Needless to say, I share Jon’s criticisms of populism, but perhaps mine were formed less as a posthegemonic inclination (though, this is implicit) than because of populism’s persistent recourse to a biopolitical, racialising frame. To be sure, ‘the people’ might be venerated or derided. But, this very figure is nevertheless worked up into a figure through the functionings of a transcendental gaze - the state, or state-in-waiting - without which people would not be bound together as the people. It’s this representational gesture that populism denies - the naturalisation of politics and the depoliticisation of that which is deemed to be natural.
°Rights, fate
Beginning a series of posts, collection of readings, which I’m filing under rights - or, perhaps this should be ‘rights and recognition’.
There’s an earlier reading which should be included here, Werner Hamacher’s “The Right to Have Rights”, as well as number of other posts which touch on the topic, and a 2001 essay of mine, which seems increasingly unsatisfactory, but more on that as I move along.
For now, here’s an excerpt from Wendy Brown’s “‘The Most We Can Hope For …’ : Human Rights and the Politics of Fatalism”, which is a response to Michael Ignatieff’s, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry:
°Knots
The first paragraph of - provisionally titled and still in draft form - “Cutting Democracy’s Knot: Nancy and Tronti between the Present and the Not-Now”, co-written with Brett.
Filed under: Democracy + Tronti + Nancy + theologico-politico
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°Afformative flashes
I thought I might extract some threads from the discussion on Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” that’s been happening over at Long Sunday.
°Chronos
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If Machiavelli suggests that the Prince, in order to grasp his fortune, needs to be half-man, half-beast (centaur), what, then, to make of the robot fortune-teller?
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