Ethics: An Impossible Politics—Perversion, Law and Racial Difference

IF 0.8 Q2 LAW LAW AND CRITIQUE Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI:10.1007/s10978-023-09369-y
Andreja Zevnik
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Abstract This paper takes the removal of the Colston statue in Bristol in the summer of 2020 and the accompanying Black Lives Matter protest as a political setting which can help us explore the radical political potential of Ari Hirvonen’s work. In this intervention I return to some of the themes that his work continuously engages with (such as the question of the limits, transgressions of law, and ethical acts), and re-think them in the context of racial justice. This think-piece opens with reconsideration of ethics and politics drawing on Hirvonen’s brilliant readings of the Antigone and his last book Ethics of Tragedy. By reading transgressions of law as forms of (productive) perversions, this intervention, explores ways in which a different kind of politics might emerge. If in most of his works, Hirvonen saw radical democracy as a vehicle for socio-political transformation, his last work, I argue, moves towards radical even revolutionary transformations. Here I propose to read actions taken by the contemporary racial justice groups as an attempt to embody ‘perversion as rebellion’ or perversion as resistance (both ideas found in Hirvonen’s work).
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伦理:一种不可能的政治扭曲、法律与种族差异
本文以2020年夏天布里斯托尔科尔斯顿雕像的拆除以及随之而来的“黑人的命也重要”抗议活动为政治背景,帮助我们探索Ari Hirvonen作品中激进的政治潜力。在这次干预中,我回到了他的作品中不断涉及的一些主题(如限制、违法和道德行为的问题),并在种族正义的背景下重新思考它们。这篇思考文章以重新思考伦理和政治开始,借鉴了希尔沃宁对《安提戈涅》的精彩解读以及他的最后一本书《悲剧伦理》。通过将违法行为解读为(生产性)变态的形式,这种干预探索了一种不同类型的政治可能出现的方式。如果在他的大部分作品中,Hirvonen将激进民主视为社会政治转型的工具,那么我认为,他的最后一部作品走向了激进甚至是革命性的转型。在这里,我建议将当代种族正义团体所采取的行动解读为一种试图体现“作为反叛的变态”或作为抵抗的变态(这两种想法都可以在Hirvonen的作品中找到)。
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