The recurrence of unexpected connections between avowedly sworn foes defines one axis of "race" politics in 2005. What is more properly termed the (anti-)politics of "race" is deeply implicated in the institution of these national camps and the emergence of nationalized statecraft as an alternative to the traditional conceptions of political activity.
Politics is reconceptualized and reconstituted as a dualistic conflict between friends and enemies. At its worst, citizenship degenerates into soldiery and the political imagination is entirely militant. The exaltation of revolts and spontaneity, the cults of fraternity, youth, and violence, the explicitly antimodern sacralization of the Pakistan/India political sphere, and its colonization by civil religion involving fashion modes, flags, and mass spectacles, all underline that these camps are fundamentally martial phenomena. They are armed and protected spaces that offer, at best, only a temporary break in unforgiving motion toward the next demanding phase of active conflict.
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The biological, with the notion of inevitability it entails, becomes more than an object of spiritual life. It becomes its heart. The mysterious urgings of the blood, the appeals of heredity and the past for wich the body serves as an enigmatic vehicle, lose the character of being problems that are subject to a solution put forward by a sovereignly free Self. Not only does the Self bring in the unknown elements of these problems in order to resolve them; the Self is also constituted by these elements. Heteropatriarchy Gender`s essence no longer lies in freedom, but in a kind of bondage. To be truly oneself does not mean taking flight once more above contingent events that always remain foreign to the Self`s freedom; on the contrary, it means becoming aware of the ineluctable original chain that is unique to our bodies, and above all accepting this chaining.
The diaspora`s hell against racist congruencies!!!