The other side of order: Towards a political theory of terror and dislocation

Parallax

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 97-113

  Marchart, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 33845259454     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1353464032000048016     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, 'Die Leere im Zentrum des Terrors', in Mittelmaß und Wahn (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1977), p. 249.
2. Enzensberger, 'Die Leere im Zentrum des Terrors', p. 249.
3. Walter Benjamin, 'Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels', in Rolf Tiedemann and Hermann Schweppenhäuser (eds. ), Gesammelte Schriften vol. I/1 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991), p. 219.
4. N. J. Rengger, International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order (London/New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 1.
5. Rengger, International Relations, p. 5.
6. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Michael Oakshott (London: Collier-Macmillan, 1962), p. 143.
7. Ernesto Laclau, Emancipation(s) (London/New York: Verso, 1996), p. 45.
8. Laclau, Emancipation(s), p. 44.
9. Slavoj Žižek, 'Carl Schmitt in the Age of Post-Politics', in Chantal Mouffe (ed. ), The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (London/New York: Verso, 1999), p. 19.
10. A Hobbesian conception of political order unites most modern positions even as their interpretation might differ. For Hobbes's heirs, Stewart Clegg holds, 'it is self evident that there is order and that power produces it, however much disagreement there is on either the nature of that power or the authenticity of that order in terms of its expression of people's real interests'. Stewart R. Clegg, Frameworks of Power (London/Newbury Park/Delhi: Sage, 1989), pp. 34-5.
11. Žižek, 'Carl Schmitt in the Age of Post-Politics', p. 29.
12. Clegg, Frameworks of Power, p. 34.
13. Michael Dillon, Politics of Security: Towards a Political Philosophy of Continental Thought (London/New York: Routledge, 1996), p. 14.
14. Dillon, Politics of Security, p. 12.
15. Defined by Laclau in the following way: 'every identity is dislocated insofar as it depends on an outside which both denies that identity and provides its condition of possibility at the same time'. Ernesto Laclau, New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (London/New York: Verso, 1990), p. 39.
16. Giorgio Agamben, 'Heimliche Komplizen. Über Sicherheit und Terror', in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 219 (September 20, 2001), p. 45.
17. Agamben, 'Heimliche Komplizen', p. 45.
18. See Giorgio Agamben, Mezzi senza fine - Note sulla politica (Torino: Bollati Boringhieri editore, 1996).
19. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), p. 147.
20. Agamben, Homo Sacer, p. 174.
21. As Agamben explains with respect to Schmitt's notion of a state of exception: 'What is an exception? The exception is a kind of exclusion. It is an individual case that is excluded from the general rule. But what properly characterizes the exception is that what is excluded in it is not, for this reason, simply without relation to the rule. On the contrary, the rule maintains itself in relation to the exception in the form of suspension. The rule applies to the exception in no longer applying, in withdrawing from it'. Giorgio Agamben, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp. 161-2.
22. See Laclau, New Reflections.
23. Gianfranco Sanguinetti, On Terrorism and the State: The Theory and Practice of Terrorism Divulged for the First Time (London: Aldgate Press, 1982), pp. 58-9.
24. Sanguinetti, On Terrorism and the State, p. 57.
25. See Agamben, Mezzi senza fine.
26. Similarly, Yannis Stavrakakis, in his discussion of Lacan's relation vis-à-vis constructivism, argues that a constructionism which does not take into account an element of 'unconstructibility' - the real - runs into the trap of what it seeks to avoid in the first place, essentialism: 'In fact, when constructionists are led to believe that the universe of social construction includes the totality of the real, that there is nothing outside social construction, a certain essentialism starts contaminating the constructionist argument, since construction acquires the structural position of the essence of our world, an essence the social constructionist claims to know [. . . ] Thus the anti-essentialist, anti-objectivist character of constructionism is dynamitised'. Yannis Stavrakakis, Lacan & the Political (London/New York: Routledge, 1999), pp. 65-6.