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The Political Subject post-September 11: From Zizek to Schmitt |
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The 'death of the subject' could well be one of the leitmotifs of the postmodern age. It is not that the postmodern subject does not exist or that it is spectral, or perhaps that it is even a zombie. No, the postmodern subject is an unburied corpse. A corpse, that is, whose very status as unburied, marks both that romantic site to which we may never return and provides evidence of its mode of death; if the subject did die, it was not through natural causes. In this paper I take issue with this death and explore the complex nature of the contemporary 'political subject'. There are two moves to this critique. The first is to resurrect, through the work of Slavoj Zizek, the ontological idea of the subject. The second is to repoliticise this subject through an admittedly dangerous liaison with Carl Schmitt's critique of political romanticism. The political subject that emerges is not one we might like a great deal, but it is the subject that is emerging post-September 11. The irony is that not only is the political subject being resuscitated, but that, and contrary to overblown claims surrounding Globalization, deterritorialisation and the Post-International, the 'subject' of International Politics is also reemerging with a vengeance. |
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Name: International Studies Association URL: http://www.isanet.org
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MLA Citation:
| Wight, Colin. "The Political Subject post-September 11: From Zizek to Schmitt" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Mar 17, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p74448_index.html> |
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| Wight, C. , 2004-03-17 "The Political Subject post-September 11: From Zizek to Schmitt" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p74448_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The 'death of the subject' could well be one of the leitmotifs of the postmodern age. It is not that the postmodern subject does not exist or that it is spectral, or perhaps that it is even a zombie. No, the postmodern subject is an unburied corpse. A corpse, that is, whose very status as unburied, marks both that romantic site to which we may never return and provides evidence of its mode of death; if the subject did die, it was not through natural causes. In this paper I take issue with this death and explore the complex nature of the contemporary 'political subject'. There are two moves to this critique. The first is to resurrect, through the work of Slavoj Zizek, the ontological idea of the subject. The second is to repoliticise this subject through an admittedly dangerous liaison with Carl Schmitt's critique of political romanticism. The political subject that emerges is not one we might like a great deal, but it is the subject that is emerging post-September 11. The irony is that not only is the political subject being resuscitated, but that, and contrary to overblown claims surrounding Globalization, deterritorialisation and the Post-International, the 'subject' of International Politics is also reemerging with a vengeance. |
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