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Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility
This collection of essays investigates the convergence between the postmodern politics of mobility and a politics of metaphor, a politics, in other words, in the context of which the production and displacement of meaning(s) constitute the major stakes. Ranging from discussions of re-territorialization, multiculturalism, \"digisporas\" and transnational politics and ethics, to September 11th, the Pentagon's New Map, American legislation on Chinese immigration, Gianni Amelio's film Lamerica, Keith Piper's online installations and Doris Salcedo's Atrabiliarios, the collection aims to follow three different theoretical trajectories. First, it seeks to rethink our concepts of mobility in order to open them up to the complexity that structures the thoughts and practices of a global order. Second, it critically examines the privileged position of concepts and metaphors of mobility within postmodern theory. In juxtaposing conflictual theoretical formulations, the book sets out to present the competing responses that fuel academic debates around this issue. Finally, it evaluates the influence of our increasingly mobile conceptual frameworks and everyday experience on the redefinition of politics that is currently under way, especially in the context of Post-Marxist theory. Its hope is to contribute to the production of alternative political positions and practices that will address the conflicting desires for attachment and movement marking postmodernity.
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Globality, the Totalitarian Mass and National Belonging
The last couple of decades have witnessed a revived interest in the work of Hannah Arendt which has spilled over the boundaries of political phi-losophy into fields of thought as diverse as psychoanalysis and cultural and African studies.
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Most commentators agree that what energises this return to her thought is both the current revival of interest in the idea of totalitarianism (Canovan 25) but, also crucially, a reappraisal of the powerful critique that she levelled at Western intellectual and political traditions in the aftermath of World War II, starting with the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951. For a generation of thinkers engaged in the critique of Western metaphysics, her mid-century asso-ciation of European imperialism and early-modern raciology with total-itarian terror, her attack on nationalism, her desire for supra-national forms of citizenship and her belief in the (civic) community as the space in which both individual and collective identities are accorded meaning come across as having been ahead of their time and well suited to address-ing highly mobile and unstable global relations of the present moment. My own concern in this chapter will be with the emergence of racialised ethnicity in a global context, focusing particularly on the emergence of global Englishness in the late 1940s, later to develop into what is today contemporary British multiculture. My aim will be to trace points of con-tact between this hybridised space's often absolutist claims to national identity and the fascist identity structures against which Englishness has historically defined itself in the last fifty years. To this end I will be invok-ing Hannah Arendt's analysis of the totalitarian mass, which I believe lays out the problems inhering in forms of mass collectivity that are pre-mised on the fixity of the (racial, national, cultural) bond and the unitary, self-present subject.
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