On the notion of the political in postmarxist theory.
05.03.2010
Nietzsche with Deleuze II
The thought of becoming
03.12.2009
International conference
Becoming-major, becoming-minor
02.12.2009
Global capitalism, necropolitics and contemporary art
01.12.2009
Roberto Esposito
The dispositif of the person
09.10.2009
International Conference
Encountering Althusser
09.10.2009
Conference material: schedule, abstracts, articles
Encountering Althusser
03.09.2009
Antke Engel
Queer/ing Images of Sexuality and Economy
The Surplus of Paradoxes
02.09.2009
Matteo Mandarini
Negri's encounter with Guattari: the elision of Lenin
Communists like us
01.09.2009
Ruth Sonderegger
A cinematic diagnosis of biopolitics
The cinema of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
16.06.2009
Christian Kerslake
The specter of an unsolved problematic
The Meanings of Immanence in Deleuze's Philosophy
19.05.2009
Luca Basso, Vittorio Morfino
A French Marx
The singular, the trans-individual and the common
07.04.2009
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Andrea Cavaletti, Katja Diefenbach, Mark Purcell, Miguel Robles-Duran, Lukasz Stanek, Roemer van Toorn, Peter Trummer, Sven-Olov Wallenstein
State-space symposium no. 1
Biopolitics of scale
09.03.2009
Paul Hegarty, Vanessa Theodoropoulos, Jean Louis Violeau
Against the economic: Reading Baudrillard with Bataille, Lacan, Marx, and Debord
A Workshop on Baudrillard
03.02.2009
Lecture of Tom Rockmore at the International Institute for Research and Education, Amsterdam
Is Marx a Fichtean?
04.12.2008
Martin Saar
Negri on Power.
Political Spinozism
03.11.2008
Steve Wright
The Refusal of Labor
Tronti's Legacy
05.06.2008
Massimo De Angelis, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Anne Querrien
The production of commons, subjectivity and space
Communists like us
05.12.2007
A. Auerbach, K. Diefenbach, S. Dillemuth, M. Vishmidt
The politics of bohemia
08.11.2007
Maria Muhle
Politics, police and power from Foucault to Rancière
07.11.2007
Manfred Hermes
Narrative strategies of subjectivisation in Fassbinder’s "Berlin Alexanderplatz"
In the figurative sense
05.10.2007
Serhat Karakayali
On political hegemony and militant becoming: Gramsci and Deleuze
The poetics of knowledge
29.06.2007
Ruben Martinez, Jaron Rowan, Marina Vishmidt, Katja Diefenbach
The cultural producer as model of the post-fordist worker
In the mood for work
05.04.2007
Grahame Lock
The actuality of Althusser's thinking
Dictatorship of the proletariat as political science
04.04.2007
Judith Hopf
The imposition of creative work
Hey production!
08.03.2007
Raul Zelik
Notes on asymmetric warfare and governance
Sovereign police
In reference to Walter Benjamin Giorgio Agamben warns that we live today in a state of exception in which a transnational force of law is established that eliminates the law. In fact, it is a common observation of critics that the War on Terror is run as a transnational police operation breaking limits of space and time and erasing distinctions between peace and war, internal security and global control, government practices and warfare, etc. At the same time there is a remarkable strengthening of three political discourses that, in my opinion, are linked with each other and play a key role in the constitution of new global order: state failure, asymmetric warfare, and governance. The disintegration of many states in the political South, so the hegemonic political narration, leads to new non-regular conflict constellations.
With the argument, that terrorism is equivalent to a definite irregularisation of warfare, the leading G-8-states are developing a new asymmetrical warfare. But also politics become irregular: governance is a key issue for describing informal government practices and structures.
It is to be discussed, how these different discourses structure global political order. On one side, the state of exception is not to be compared with classical dictatorships: It is a sophisticated system that suspends the rights only of certain groups of the population and that make differentiated distinctions. On the other side, the state of exception linked to the War on Terror establishs a clear dichotomical global order invoking religious motifs of holy justice and just war. That, in turn, has extensive consequences for any kind of activism against the global state of exception.
Raul Zelik is a Berlin-based writer, theorist and political activist. He is working on new forms of warfare and politics of exception. He lived in Colombia and Venezuela. For his latest publication, see http://www.raulzelik.net.
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