The Coming Insurrection: to call it incredibly parochial would not even begin to convey the difficulties this work has in articulating a concept of global populations and areas outside of the categories of the nation-state and civilizational difference. In the end, it is these difficulties, more than anything else, that contribute in my reading to the inability of the authorial voice to formulate anything other than a strategy of interdiction and blockade. The passages on communication are telling: nothing about translation as an act of language in general. These are exactly the moments that describe the authorial voices attachment to the fantastical object of the West. It would be no exaggeration to say that, in the final analysis in spite of its critique, the authorial voice of the text actually identifies itself with the West, sharing in that radically conservative, and now virtually ubiquitous, vision of the West as a particular civilization that went awry precisely in its experiment with universalism. In fact, The Coming Insurrection is, at least in part, yet another manifesto by the radical Western left that announces its total lack of interest in bringing the question of the apparatus of area (the management of global populations, what was once misleadingly called the Third World Problem) into the heart of the analysis such that the categories of analysis and the responses provided would be fundamentally and intrinsically informed by that question, down to the very mode of address and communication.
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 20:11:34 +0000
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