How to preserve the connection between language and thinking? The paper moves on from this fundamental question in order to explain what is happening with philosophy today, as a medium of such a ...relationship (Badiou). Furthermore, it tries to explain the connection between the concept of apparatus (Foucault-Agamben) and language. The goal of media apparatuses is the neutralisation of language’s profane power as pure means. By robbing the language from human use and its character of disclosing the Being, capitalism controls social communication. The capital uses language as a means to disperse its own ideology and induce the so called “free-willing” obedience. The language, which should be a pure means by itself, exposes its own emptiness in the media sphere. The language – as something inherent to all human entities – should be freed from its communicational purpose. We don’t need “more communication.” What we need is creating – resistance against contemporeanity (Deleuze & Guattari). We should manage in this goal if we renew language as a GENERIC ESSENCE of a human being. Finally, coming to language is also a medium for coming-to-the-world (Sloterdijk).
How to preserve the connection between language and thinking? The paper moves on from this fundamental question in order to explain what is happening with philosophy today, as a medium of such a ...relationship (Badiou). Furthermore, it tries to explain the connection between the concept of apparatus (Foucault-Agamben) and language. The goal of media apparatuses is the neutralisation of language’s profane power as pure means. By robbing the language from human use and its character of disclosing the Being, capitalism controls social communication. The capital uses language as a means to disperse its own ideology and induce the so called “free-willing” obedience. The language, which should be a pure means by itself, exposes its own emptiness in the media sphere. The language – as something inherent to all human entities – should be freed from its communicational purpose. We don’t need “more communication.” What we need is creating – resistance against contemporeanity (Deleuze & Guattari). We should manage in this goal if we renew language as a GENERIC ESSENCE of a human being. Finally, coming to language is also a medium for coming-to-the-world (Sloterdijk).
This article attempts to bring out again into the light of day the philosophic positioning of the possibility to constitute a (political) community. One of the basic questions of every political ...theory is precisely the one regarding community, since the paradigm of liberal democracy, which prevails in the contemporary world order, has completely suppressed its actual relevance. The article introduces its subject matter through biopolitical philosophy. This refers, above all, to elaborations of Roberto Esposito on the common root of the terms communitas and immunitas. Furthermore, a highly relevant analysis of the philosophical approach to community is derived, as undertaken by Jean-Luc Nancy, which is followed by Esposito's attempt at establishing a connection between democracy and community. Finally, it is attempted once more to conceive possible philosophical, but also practical ways of thematizing community. Reprinted by permission of Fakultet politickih znanosti u Zagrebu
This article attempts to bring out again into the light of day the philosophic positioning of the possibility to constitute a (political) community. One of the basic questions of every political ...theory is precisely the one regarding community, since the paradigm of liberal democracy, which prevails in the contemporary world order, has completely suppressed its actual relevance. The article introduces its subject matter through biopolitical philosophy. This refers, above all, to elaborations of Roberto Esposito on the common root of the terms communitas and immunitas. Furthermore, a highly relevant analysis of the philosophical approach to community is derived, as undertaken by Jean-Luc Nancy, which is followed by Esposito’s attempt at establishing a connection between democracy and community. Finally, it is attempted once more to conceive possible philosophical, but also practical ways of thematizing community.
