Andreas Oberprantacher
University of Innsbruck, Philosophy, Faculty Member
This chapter traces various acts of radical democratic disobedience on the part of people who are commonly disqualified as ‘illegals’. To begin with, Oberprantacher addresses a few basic doubts in terms of the initial premise: to what... more
This chapter traces various acts of radical democratic disobedience on the part of people who are commonly disqualified as ‘illegals’. To begin with, Oberprantacher addresses a few basic doubts in terms of the initial premise: to what extent can one speak of ‘illegals’, bearing in mind the risk of discursively consolidating discriminatory approaches? Moreover, he critically investigates some of the arguments that are currently generating extremely ambivalent images of the situation of people who are governed as ‘illegals’, be it as ‘helpless victims’ or as ‘cunning criminals’. In the final part, he more broadly responds to the question of what it amounts to when ‘illegals’ are subjectivating themselves and making themselves count as a litigious political subject of a democracy to come.
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Contemporary border regimes are confronting us with a double question: Can one give an account of oneself and narrate one’s story, even if things are taking place do not make stories possible in language? Can we possibly think of a... more
Contemporary border regimes are confronting us with a double question: Can one give an account of oneself and narrate one’s story, even if things are taking place do not make stories possible in language? Can we possibly think of a politics of memory that is neither bound to given places nor to language, but that rather displaces conventional realms of memory? In the context of this double question, my paper is going to trace a few thoughts on a transitional space of memory that has recently emerged on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.
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... analysts, Samuel Huntington and Bruce Hoffman, both at the same time direct their ... narratives that presuppose neither an essentialist understanding of being nor sacrifice or enmity ... as Maurice Blanchot announces it; a... more
... analysts, Samuel Huntington and Bruce Hoffman, both at the same time direct their ... narratives that presuppose neither an essentialist understanding of being nor sacrifice or enmity ... as Maurice Blanchot announces it; a "community of question," 16 as Derrida carefully designates ...
ABSTRACT In consideration of the recurrent hunger strikes, unannounced street protests, and occupations of landmarks performed by people that are commonly dismissed as »illegal aliens«, this article is dedicated to discussing the... more
ABSTRACT In consideration of the recurrent hunger strikes, unannounced street protests, and occupations of landmarks performed by people that are commonly dismissed as »illegal aliens«, this article is dedicated to discussing the question, how dissent is taking place among subjects who are perceived as muted bodies and abandoned in de-politicized zones of contemporary knowledge economies
