Teresa M. Vilarós Texas A&M University Volume 16, 2024 In 1974, the Paris’s central slaughterhouse, operating since 1867 in La Villette in the outskirts of Paris, officially closed its doors. Its closing was part and parcel of the emerging supra mass-consumption mode of the postmodern period and beyond. Massification was changing forever the modes and...
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The Infrapolitical Dream of Khōra and Its Legacies
Humberto González NúñezThe University of Texas at Dallas Volume 16, 2024 I. Introduction The question of khōra seems indissociably linked to the question of legacies and the possibility of the future. To illustrate this point, we need only remember that Derrida’s essay “Khōra” operates within the difference between the Platonic text and the hegemonic legacy of the...
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Ruinance, Responsibility, and Khōra
Rafael FernándezTexas A&M University Volume 16, 2024 In this paper, I think through Alberto Moreiras’ elaboration of Philippe Lynes’s idea of a Heideggerian general ecology, focusing first on the concept of “ruinance” as elaborated on by Martin Heidegger in his 1921-22 lecture course, Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle. In the first section, I reflect on...
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Introduction: Deconstruction Contra Fascist Mythologies
James Martell & Tyler M. Williams Volume 16, 2024 The essays collected in this special issue of Política Común do not pretend to encapsulate its topic completely. Rather, they serve as openings and invitations to consider for our era the relevance of deconstruction (broadly construed) to critiques of rising tides of fascism. Much work has...
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Myths between Freud and Lacan: an Investigation of Bolsonaro’s Ideological Rise
Rodrigo GonsalvesUniversidade de São Paulo Volume 16, 2024 Introduction In recent times, Brazilian politics has been dangerously flirting with repeating its own past: the reestablishment of a renewed military dictatorship. In the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, a far-right populist was democratically elected. The 2018 Brazilian presidential elections saw a dramatic rise in far-right populist rhetoric....
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An Unfortunate Individual Case: Denazification and the Deconstruction of Value
Luce deLireIndependent Scholar I. A Case of Murder Fig. 1. The dining room at my grandparent’s apartment used to be dominated by a large painting of a man I never met, a footnote to the lives of my grandparents: “uncle Max.” He and his wife Hilde owned an ironware store with about six employees next...
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Deconstructing Fascist Mythologies
Sergio Villalobos-RuminottUniversity of Michigan Volume 16, 2024 I believe, I truly believe, that true fascism is what sociologists have naively called “the consumer society”. A definition that seems harmless, purely indicative. But no. If one observes reality well, and above all if one knows how to read the objects, the landscape, the urban planning and,...
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“Auntie”-Fascism between Gertrude Stein and Jacques Derrida
Ryan TracyKnox College Volume 16, 2024 We liked the fascists. Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography We liked the fascists. Thus spoke Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) on the pages of Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), the follow-up to the bestselling The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). Can we forgive such a phrase, appearing, as it does, under Gertrude Stein’s...
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Como Banano de Rechazo
Paula CucurellaUniversity of California Volume 16, 2024 I Mi título está tomado de una analogía en Cien años de soledad. La primera vez que leí la novela, décadas atrás, no recuerdo haber reparado en la escena donde aparece esta analogía. Y ahora, después de haber leído el libro nuevamente, todo mi interés parece despegar de...
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“In the blaze of the events.” Reading George Bataille’s Missed Book—Le Fascisme en France.
Francesco VitaleUniversity of Salerno Volume 16, 2024 Between 1933 and 1934 Georges Bataille planned to write a book, Le fascisme en France (Fascism in France). Bataille did not carry out his project but some traces of it are preserved, published in the second volume of the Oeuvres complètes, in which are collected unpublished writings dating...