Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism by Gržinić Marina;Tatlić Šefik;

Author:Gržinić, Marina;Tatlić, Šefik;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

To Act Politically

Therefore we have to draw a border. To show a border within the inconsistency of the big Other means to act: to act politically. The political act is a division, the setting of a border within a space. It reconfigures, closes, or stops the imperialism of the circulation by establishing new parameters within the space. It establishes a new structure to which to relate (decoloniality of knowledge, decoloniality of power, etc.). An act is always performed through enunciation and it not only sets the parameters that initiate the act itself, but the parameters in relation to the Other to whom it is also addressed. What is important is the establishment of the structure to which this line(s) of division will relate. In the case of the story of a non-existent past division in Europe, it is necessary to state that the biggest profit from the disappearance of borders in Europe is to be gained by financial capital. The point is that in order to push such logic, it was necessary to imply a ferocious process of equalization and leveling of all of the strata of the different European and World societies; from the social to the educational and cultural. It was necessary to install one of the most ferocious politics of repetition of the unrestrainment of capital (also through the politics of dispossession). Put another way, local specificities were changed into ethnic/ethnographical ones, and one general path of history and genealogy from art to culture and science was repeated and established as the only valid one: the First Capitalist World history that completely (de)regulates the history, the present and the future of the world.

The political act changes the very coordinates of this impossibility. It is only through a decolonial act that we set the border within the cynical situation where the only thing which is impossible is impossibility as such. Subsequently it is necessary to build the decolonial framework that would set the new parameters, giving new coordinates to the political work. Within such a context, I can claim that what is necessary, in fact, is a precise, new conceptual and paradigmatic political act, which implies the setting of a new framework.

The question that always stays indeed is to which histories do we attach our representational politics and how do we resituate our position within a certain social, economic and political territory that is connected with the act of building conditions for new possibilities?

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