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 …
… the undocumented created an architecture of a shadow society whose political form is unaddressed. It is described by words like Township, Settlement, Slum, but again like camp, each of those words presents us with shortcomings.
