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 |
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| author | Hickman, Amy Katherine |
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| description | 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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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-937522023-11-14T01:01:46Z Autoimmune Interventions: Between (Bio)deconstruction and (Bio)politics Hickman, Amy Katherine 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. 2023 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93752 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Hickman, Amy Katherine Autoimmune Interventions: Between (Bio)deconstruction and (Bio)politics |
| title | Autoimmune Interventions: Between (Bio)deconstruction and (Bio)politics |
| title_full | Autoimmune Interventions: Between (Bio)deconstruction and (Bio)politics |
| title_fullStr | Autoimmune Interventions: Between (Bio)deconstruction and (Bio)politics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Autoimmune Interventions: Between (Bio)deconstruction and (Bio)politics |
| title_short | Autoimmune Interventions: Between (Bio)deconstruction and (Bio)politics |
| title_sort | autoimmune interventions: between (bio)deconstruction and (bio)politics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93752 |