Imploding singularities: For a critique of autoimmunity as political future 1

Goldie Osuri*

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    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)499-510
    Number of pages12
    JournalSocial Semiotics
    Volume16
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Sept 2006

    Keywords

    • Autoimmunity
    • Deconstruction and political intervention
    • Imperialism
    • Nationalism
    • Orientalism
    • September 11
    • Spacetime
    • War on terror

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