Diastasis and the ruin of politics

Authors

  • Alberto Moreiras Universidad de Texas A&M

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.21.21265

Keywords:

Infrapolitics, diastasis, katechon, ontotheology.

Abstract

The text contextualises Gareth Williams’ recent book, Infrapolitical Passages, and attempts to present its main themes for the Spanish reader. The insistent question of Williams’ book —the possibility of critical thinking in our present conditions— initiates a shift towards a thinking about existence, not for the sake of an escape from politics but, on the contrary, to expose politics to its constitutive reverse, which is what allows —and it is the one thing that makes it possible— a deconstruction of the ontology of the commodity governing politics in the time of its metaphysical ruin. 

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Author Biography

Alberto Moreiras, Universidad de Texas A&M

Alberto Moreiras is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University.   He is the author of Interpretación y diferencia (1991), Tercer espacio: literatura y duelo en América Latina (1999), The Exhaustion of Difference: the Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies (2002), Línea de sombra. El no sujeto de lo político (2008), Marranismo e inscripción, o el abandono de la conciencia desdichada (2016), Infrapolítica.   Instrucciones de uso (2020), Sosiego siniestro   (2020) y Tercer espacio y otros relatos (2021). He co-edited with Nelly Richard Pensar en/la postdictadura (2002) and with José Luis Villacañas Conceptos fundamentales del pensamiento latinoamericano actual (2017). He is co-editor of Política común. A Journal of Thought and of the Border Hispanisms series at the University of Texas Press.  

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Published

2021-06-30

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Moreiras, A. (2021). <em>Diastasis</em> and the ruin of politics. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 21, 87–95. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.21.21265
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