This text was read at the ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize 2010, which was awarded to Liu Xiaobo ‘for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China’ “Twenty years on, the innocent souls of June Fourth are yet to rest in...
A conception of the Law which must be an essentially innovatory one is not to be found, integrally, in any pre-existing doctrine…. If every state tends to create and maintain a certain type of civilisation and of citizen (and hence of collective life and of...
Jurisdiction is the fact of saying right… (7) Hence, jus [i.e. right (ed)] is essentially articulated by a subject, but a subject that is less substance (this is rather what it loses, as Hegel said) than a potency or potentiality (an ability, will, desire, power,...
(Streifzüge durch die Umwelten der Tieren und Menschen (1933), translated by Stephen Connelly [*]) Translator’s note: In this short introduction von Uexküll outlines his view of passive consciousness and its relation to affective being which would prove so...
… todo va bien, hasta que llegan los lectores. Porque, cuando ellos llegan, entonces: entonces. Entonces todo iba bien. A eso se llega cuando los lectores llegan. Primero publicar, luego escribir (única manera de Evitar lectores) … Las hijas de Hegel...
Of late, I have been working on a deconstruction of the people variously through Derrida and Ranciere. But it seems to me that one of the more important theorists of constituent power is Schmitt (along with Sieyes, Negri, Benjamin and Bataille). So, with the spectre...
