In a triumph of circular logic, the means of exclusion that serves to maintain a liberal Europe have pushed it to its very opposite.. We need to understand how the resurrection of the body without claim, the corpus nullius of colonial imagination, re-opened the door …
.. far from advancing a common policy, the hotspot only adds to its ongoing theatre of dis-coordination. The hotspot becomes a migration choke, a new mechanism of detention and a way to ensure that those who escape to Europe from one disaster zone end up in another..
The image is the means by which we both avoid the Other and yet represent the Other. As the rights of movement in the global age demarcates who the Other is, a confrontation with the image becomes necessary to envisage a future based on an equal rights of movement.
a postcolonial terra nullius re-emerges out of history as a necessary political conception. It manifests in the ever-multiplying colonies of the undocumented humans who are without the political capacity of constitution, but who arise out of ..
The erasing of community takes place not only through eviction by the State. It also takes place in political writing through conditions that assign its place to the contingent, non-instrumental or without consequence. Writing it as such …
The political antagonism posed by community — in particular the struggle through it for agency beyond the framework of liberal democracy — now underwrites all political life. The terrain of new struggle is being fought through myth and community …
