Derrida, Algeria, and "Structure, Sign, and Play"

Morrissey, Lee

doi:10.1353/pmc.1999.0004

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“…Derrida's (1966) subject is multiplicity itself: I absolutely refuse, a discourse that would assign me a single code, a single language game, a single context, a single situation; and I claim this right not simply out of caprice or because it is to my taste, but for ethical and political reasons. (p. 81, cited by Morrisey, 1999)…”

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The (Im)Possibilities of Writing the Self-Writing: French Poststructural Theory and Autoethnography

Gannon

2006

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Poststructural theories problematize taken-for-granted humanist notions of the subject as capable of self-knowledge and self-articulation while simultaneously providing a rationale for incorporating the personal into research. The body, emotions, and lived experience become texts to be written and read in autoethnography. However, a paradox arises for poststructural autoethnography in that autoethnographic research presumes that subjects can speak for themselves, whereas poststructuralism disrupts this presumption and stresses the (im)possibilities of writing the self. This article explores the work of pivotal French poststructuralists—Foucault, Barthes, Derrida, and Cixous—as they write themselves and put those selves under erasure in writing. The author identifies the implications for a reconfigured poststructural autoethnography, tracing textual strategies that evoke fractured, fragmented subjectivities and provoke discontinuity, displacement, and estrangement. In poststructural autoethnography, the writing writes the writer as a complex (im)possible subject in a world where (self) knowledge can only ever be tentative, contingent, and situated.

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The (Im)Possibilities of Writing the Self-Writing: French Poststructural Theory and Autoethnography

Gannon

2006

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“…While Deleuze's writings on Palestine have not been subject to a mass reception, the political activities and writings of his French contemporaries have been met with analysis, celebration and critique. For example, Michel Foucault's involvement in the French prison struggle has been well documented and analysed (see Zurn and Dilts, 2016;Heiner, 2007;Elden, 2017;Welch, 2011;Brich, 2008;Hoffman, 2012); Jean-Paul Sartre's critique of France's settler colonialization of Algeria (Sartre, 2001) has been met with widespread engagement (see Butler, 2006;Le Sueur, 2005;Ahluwalia, 2010); Derrida's relationship to French colonial Algeria has been met with scholarly reflection (see Derrida, 1998;Morrissey, 1999;Che´rif, 2008;Wise, 2009); Pierre Bourdieu's ethnographies of Algeria and the resulting concept of 'habitus' have been subject to critical reflection (Goodman and Silverstein, 2009;Loyal, 2009;Yacine, 2004); Lyotard's writings on anti-Semitism and Algeria have been published in an edited collection (Lyotard, 2002) and met with some reflection (Hiddleston, 2010). Here I exclusively note engagements with the political activities of Deleuze's white European contemporaries because anti-colonial and anti-racist politics were the central, not tangential, subject matter of the works of contemporaries such as Frantz Fanon (2005) and Edward Said (1979aSaid ( , 1979b.…”

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Palestine in Deleuze

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2019

Theory, Culture & Society

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In the late 1970s and early 1980s French philosopher Gilles Deleuze authored a series of articles in which he reflected on the formation of the state of Israel and its subsequent dispossession and colonisation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Naming the state of Israel as a colonial state, Deleuze’s under-discussed texts connect Israel’s programme of colonisation to that of the United States and the persisting dispossession of indigenous peoples. In so doing, this article argues, Deleuze offers an analysis of the development of capitalism that takes seriously its relation to colonial violence. Having called attention to Deleuze’s writings on Palestine, the conclusion of this article asks why these texts have been marginalised by Deleuze scholars. It asks how we might think of this marginalisation as contributing to the subjugation of Palestinian life, and as indicative of how relations of colonialism structure western social theory.

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The post always rings twice? The Algerian War, poststructuralism and the postcolonial in IR theory

Sajed¹

2011

Rev. Int. Stud.

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This article makes the case for rethinking the relation between poststructuralism and postcolonialism, by building on the claims advanced by Robert Young, Azzedine Haddour and Pal Ahluwalia that the history of deconstruction coincides with the collapse of the French colonial system in Algeria, and with the violent anti-colonial struggle that ensued. I choose to examine narratives of theorists such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Cixous because not only they provide the link between colonial violence, the poststructuralist project that ensued, and postcolonialism, but also because the problems I identify with their projects are replicated by much poststructuralist work in International Relations (IR). I signal that one of the most significant consequences of conducting poststructuralist research without attention to postcolonial horizons lies in the idealisation of the marginalised, the oppressed or the native without attending to the complexity of her position, voice or agency. Bringing these theories together aims to highlight the need for a dialogue, within IR, between poststructuralism's desire to disrupt the disciplinarity of the field, and postcolonialism's potential to transcend the self-referential frame of IR by introducing perspectives, (hi)stories, and voices from elsewhere.

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Derrida, Algeria, and "Structure, Sign, and Play"

Cited by 7 publications

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The (Im)Possibilities of Writing the Self-Writing: French Poststructural Theory and Autoethnography

The (Im)Possibilities of Writing the Self-Writing: French Poststructural Theory and Autoethnography

Palestine in Deleuze

The post always rings twice? The Algerian War, poststructuralism and the postcolonial in IR theory

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