the unrequited quest for a transparency of power also leads perversely to the One, a spectacular enactment of the Leader. As the inevitabilities of liberal democracy and viral technology produce more Trumps, the louder the carnival laughter must become..
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 ..
In the unfolding drama of work in the digital age, new circumstance demands new language. Gig economy, on-demand work, sharing economy, precarious work, automation, zero-hour contracts, outsourcing, workfare. Whilst the entire stage set changes…
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 …
.. a process of dismantling the colonial empire without having to choose between French colonialism and national independence. Its project was a postcolonial imagined community that lay beyond the nation-state in a federal entity..
