Fidelity to Life ∼ Hospitable Biopolitics

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ID3774096
AuthorsChris Hall (0000-0002-5629-8147)
Year2024
Volume29
Issue1-2
Pages9-19
Publication date2024-03-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAngelaki (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0969725x.2024.2322249
OpenAlexW4396733969
LanguageEN
References cited19

While fidelity is a crucial aspect of Jacques Derrida's thinking as it pertains to issues of faith, ethics, and responsibility, this key position in deconstructionist discourse has hardly yet been brought to light. Less still have the biopolitical resonances of Derrida's work, with its careful attention to the terms and stakes of life particularly in his later writing, been considered as a deconstructionist practice of fidelity and infidelity in its own right. In pursuing these threads, this essay argues that thinking a deconstructionist ethics through fidelity and biopolitics makes possible the crafting of a new philosophical weave for catching our responsibilities to others – to the very otherness of life itself – that Derridean hospitality opens up. Taken together in this way, a deconstructionist fidelity to life otherwise, to a biopolitics to come, makes possible an infidelity to political order as we know it that explodes the limitations of biopolitical theory. In squinting, blinking, tearing up, and listening, the borders of life are blurred in an ambivalent ethics of a transness within which life itself is made to waver and arrive anew

Biopower · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Fidelity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Law · Philosophy

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