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°Intrus

May 12, 2006

The opening paragraphs from J-L Nancy’s “L’Intrus” (Centennial Review, 2.3):

“The intruder [l’ intrus] enters by force, through surprise or ruse, in any case without the right and without having first been admitted.

°Public versus street

April 13, 2006

Speaking of the politics of publicum versus that of the streets (below and before), here’s a sign hung in the George Washington library stairwell (I think) yesterday:

As the future policy writers of America, gather with your fellow students to discuss how to avoid letting a situation develop like the one in France–where the streets circumvent sound public policy.

And, as an aside on the impolitical, those with an interest in the writings of Roberto Esposito might be pleased to know … Relatedly, on the cut of politics, the name and the border, Keith generously transcribes Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Cut Throat Sun” over at Metastable Equilibrium. La raza - the razor.

°(ex)communication

March 2, 2006

CultureMachine’s annual edition is up, this one on Jean-Luc Nancy, including Brett’s and my piece, “Cutting Democracy’s Knot”.

Filed under: Democracy + Tronti + Nancy
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°Knots

December 7, 2005

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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°Populi

November 20, 2005

Speaking of populism, a fragment of a draft on a fragment on politics:

Nancy writes that “our entire history” seems to show that the empty figure of the citizen is persistently turned over to the identifications of the subject. And, he adds, “democracy without identification” would “be without any demos or kratein of its own” (1997:108). Subject and citizen represent—as Nancy will insist in the second fragment on ‘politics’ (1997)—“two postures of the claim to sovereignty and the institution of community.” The citizen folds into the “politics of the modern subject”, as the “laicised theology, or if one prefers, a romanticised theology, of the ‘people’, ‘history’, and ‘humanity’.” Nancy emphasises that it is “the word people” which marks the turn of the citizen—who otherwise circulates as “a mobile complex of rights”—toward the theological ground of the subject. He asks, and goes on to answer in the affirmative, whether the citizen and subject “are not in an intimate solidarity or connivance.”

Filed under: Democracy + Nancy
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°Hegel

September 22, 2005

I’ve been reading a couple of books on Hegel, which seem to me at first bite, to constitute a perverse, if fascinating, labour. Werner Hamacher’s Pleroma - Reading Hegel and Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Restlessness of the Negative. Both, in somewhat different ways, attempt to read Hegel against Hegelianism, against the dialectical system.

Filed under: Nancy + Hamacher + Hegel
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°Being Singular Multitudes

September 16, 2005

If the declaration of the state of emergency obscures the normal functioning of the state in the declaration of the exceptional instance - obscures the persistence of the exception as foundation of sovereign decision - then the struggle consists in both refusing the attempts to repartition (to dislocate the experience of the exception in either an imaginary, demographic or geopolitical sense) and to universalise that experience, to apostrophise the catastrophe.

Filed under: Multitudes + Escape + Nancy
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