The sovereign police and knowledgeable bodies: Liu Xiaobo's exilic critique of politics and knowledge

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Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 399-429

  Solomon, Jon ^a  

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DOI: 10.1215/10679847-10-2-399     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. The proceedings of one such conference are gathered in a remarkable edition of Daedalus titled "The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today." See Daedalus 120, no. 2 (spring 1991).
2. Proceedings of another related conference can be found in Jintian [Today literary magazine] 20, no. 1 (1993): 239-253.
3. Yi Mu and Mark V. Thompson, Crisis at Tiananmen: Reform and Reality in Modern China (San Francisco: China Books, 1989), 67.
4. Qiao Li et al., comps., "Death or Rebirth? Tiananmen: The Soul of China," trans. H. R. Lan and Jerry Dennerline, in Beijing Spring, 1989: Confrontation and Conflict, ed. Michael Oksenberg, Lawrence Sullivan, and Marc Lambert (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1990).
5. Liu Xiaobo, "Kuangwang bizao tianze: Lun zhongguo wenhua de daode zhishangde zhiming liaowu" [Arrogance will be punished by heaven: On the fatal fallacy of moralism in Chinese culture], in Beiju shenmei ziyou [Tragedy aesthetics freedom) (Taipei: Fengyun Shidai, 1989), 65-75.
6. Etienne Balibar, Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy before and after Marx, trans. James Swenson (New York: Routledge, 1994).
7. Liu Xiaobo, Zhongguo dangdai zhengzhi yu zhongguo zhishi fenzi (Taipei: Tonsan, 1990), 159.
8. See Liu Xiaobo, Xuanze de pipan: Yu sixtang Imgxiu duihua (Critique of choice: Dialogue with an intellectual leader] (Shanghai: Shangai Wenyi, 1986).
9. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community, ed. Peter Connor, trans. Peter Connor, Lisa Garbus, Micheal Holland, and Simon a Sawhney (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), 34.
10. "Wufa Huibi de Fansi: You jibu zhishi fenzi ticai de xiaoshuo suo xiangdao de," Zhongguo 1, no. 4 (April 1986): 104; italics added.
11. Liu, Zhongguo dangdai zhengzhi, 164; my emphasis.
12. Gérard Noiriel, La tyrannie du national: Le droit d'asile en Europe, 1793-1993 (Paris: Caimann-Lèvy, 1995), 151.
13. Balibar, Masses, Classes, Ideas, 217; emphasis in original.
14. Giorgio Agamben, Moyens sans fins: Notes sur la politique (Paris: Editions Payot & Rivages, 1995), 115.
15. Related by Robert Munro or Human Rights Watch Asia, speaking on CNN, 31 October 1996.
16. My reading of Liu Xiaobo and Chinese politics identifies the normative discourse of sovereignty and community as the significant "idiom in which the litigation is regulated." "The field of reference" for this discourse would thus be the facts that supposedly constitute its objective autonomy: language, birth, and soil. I rely on a theonzation of the limits of these objects in order to arrive at a sense of justice. See Jean-François Lyotard, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), 9.
17. One important place to look for evidence in this regard is the postface to Liu Xiaobo, Zhongguo dangdai zhengzhi yu zhongguo zhishi fenzi (Taipei: Tonsan, 1990), where Liu lists five kinds of attitudes typical of Westerners' involvement with China. Another important place to look is Liu's essay "Foreign Salons and Cultural Imperialism" ["Yangshalong yu wenhua qmlue"] in Beiju shenmei ziyou, 47-55.
18. Regrettably, the author is forced by the constraints of space to employ words like a mantra. Hence a brief bibliography for the reader: For a brief sketch of nonsovereignty, see Jon Solomon, "No-soberanía para las multitudes: Recursos para una Dernocracia de Extranjeros, a partir de François Lamelle" [Non-sovereignty for the multitudes: Resources for a Democracy of Foreigners from François Laruelle's 'Non-philosophy'], " trans. Erik del Bufalo, in Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Avanzados, no. 17 (Caracas: Cipost, 2002).
19. For a philosophical presentation of the "Democracy of Foreigners" and a "Science of Humans" (as opposed to the "Human Sciences"), see François Laruelle, Théorie des étrangers (Paris: Kimé, 1995).
20. For a call for a "nonsubjective sovereignty" and "a nonsovereign politics," see Jean-Luc Nancy, "Exmhilo summum (de la souveraineté)," in Nancy's La création du monde ou la mondialisation (Pans: Galilée, 2002), 145-172.
21. For an understanding of how the national appropriation of sovereignty was directly linked to European territorial appropriation and the deterritorializing biopower of capital, see Hideaki Tazaki, "Konjitu no sei-scip no naka no nîche" [Nietzsche amidst contemporary biopolitics], Shisō, no. 919 (Tokyo: Iwanami, 2000).
22. For an in-depth description of a "non-European" perspective that does not rely on oppositions between same and other and establishes a politics of the "non-European" consonant with that of Laruelle's foreigner (based on nonrelation and non-self-sufficiency), see Danilo di Manno de Almeida, Pour une imagination non-européene (Paris: Kimé, 2002).
23. Micheal Inwood, "Jaspers, Karl," in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 428.
24. Liu Xiaobo, Xuanze de pipan: Yu sixiang lingxiu duihua [Critique of choice: Dialogue with an intellectual leader] (Taipei: Fengyun Shidai, 1989), 9.