Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-7063-5. Derridaphilia Lasse Thomassen First the facts: Derrida is a film about Jacques Derrida, who was born in 1930, taught in France and the United States, wrote…
Sarah Kember The current quest for life is both material and metaphorical, and is particularly characteristic of the shifting boundary between technoscience, art and media. It raises questions of definition…
The biopolitics of adoption Culture Machine dedicated its last issue to a discussion of biopolitics. I would like to continue the journal's recent consideration of biopolitics with an examination of…
Social science's and social theory's renewed interest in issues of community coincides with a new visibility for community arts and participatory-art making as an alternative to high modernist art practice…
But man is, starting from his death. (Maurice Blanchot) The defeatists are everywhere. (Arakawa & Gins) For Maurice Blanchot, the notion of community is necessarily tied to the fact of…
My paper begins with a postscript, and more accurately a postscript to a preface, from Frédéric Brenner's book, Diaspora: Homelands in Exile (2003a, 2003b). Yet his postscript obviously is also…
Overview The present scholarly interest in the concept of community has resulted in a tableau of discursive production (Anderson, 1991; Agamben, 1993; Hardt and Negri, 2000). I would argue that…
Democratic practice has traditionally been linked to bounded communities. A bounded community denotes, with respect to democratic politics, two specific ideas: an exclusive community of citizens, a demos, held together…
[R]esponsibility keeps its secret, it cannot and need not present itself. Tyrannically, jealously, it refuses to present itself before the violence that consists of asking for accounts and justifications, summonses…
In his first extended speech in the midst of the rebellions of the banlieues and an officially declared state of emergency, French President Jacques Chirac announced that the problem confronting…