Autoimmune Interventions: Between (Bio)deconstruction and (Bio)politics
This thesis puts forward a reinterpretation of the political significance of Jacques Derrida’s concept of autoimmunity. Finding that the generalisation of autoimmunity cannot guarantee a normative politics, the thesis investigates that logic’s effects in the biopolitical thought of Judith Butler, Ro...
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Curtin University
2023
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93752 |
| Summary: | This thesis puts forward a reinterpretation of the political significance of Jacques Derrida’s concept of autoimmunity. Finding that the generalisation of autoimmunity cannot guarantee a normative politics, the thesis investigates that logic’s effects in the biopolitical thought of Judith Butler, Roberto Esposito, and Hannah Arendt. I argue that autoimmunity shows us that nothing is immune from politicisation, and instead multiplies the possibilities for what political thought and action could be and where they might appear. |
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