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Imploding singularities : for a critique of autoimmunity as political future
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Osuri, Goldie (2006) Imploding singularities : for a critique of autoimmunity as political future. Social Semiotics, Volume 16 (Number 3). pp. 499-510. doi:10.1080/10350330600824474
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330600824474
Abstract
This paper traces the resilience of Orientalist representations in contemporary political and popular cultural constructions of space and time. Derrida's deconstruction of universalist notions of space and time enables a challenge to these mechanisms. However, our contemporary political era in the context of the war between terrorisms is marked by an implosion of the Enlightenment concept of universal space and time and the attempt to negate multiple spacetimes. In this sense, Derrida's concept of autoimmunity appears to be a necessary theoretical tool in reading our political future in relation to wars between state and other terrorisms.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social Semiotics | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1035-0330 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2006 | ||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 16 | ||||||
| Number: | Number 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 499-510 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/10350330600824474 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Description: | Part of a special issue: "The Political Futures of Jacques Derrida" |
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