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- Quaderno monografico – Le frontiere dell´agire tra arte, filosofia e politica / Monographic issue – Fronteiras do agir entre arte, filosofia e política
- Sull’agire e le sue frontiere: riflessioni introduttive sul tema
- Sublime et cosmologie: l’étrange alliance de l’incompréhensible et du compréhensible
- O Matriarcado Minoico (Keftiu) e a arcaica ausência de fronteiras entre arte, filosofia, política e religião
- Nicht-Handeln (wu wei) als politisches Prinzip. Die Kunst des Regierens bei Lao Zi und Konf uzius
- Desassossegos atuais sobre o humanismo: uma contribuição de Martin Heidegger
- “Un pensiero della soglia”. Figure dell’alterità in Simmel, Schütz e Waldenfels e politiche dell’ospitalità
- Begrenzte ästhetische Freiheit als Ermöglicherin künstlerischen Handelns1
- Quando la politica danza. Riflessioni politiche sulla coreografia, la danza e la protesta
- The Precarious Dialectic of Border Regimes: On the Relationship between the Construction of Borders and the Dismantling of Democracy in the Trump Era
- Vom Außen
- Entgrenzte Grenze: die Anomalie des Kinos nach Badiou
- A fronteira entre o olhar e o agir
- Le frontiere tra le arti performative e la filosofia
- MULTI MEDEA EXTRAGÖDIE frei nach Euripides – Theaterproben, ein Bericht
- Laura Scuriatti, Mina Loy’s Critical Modernism, University Press of Florida, 2019
- Judith Siegmund, Zweck und Zweckfreiheit. Zum Funktionswandel der Künste im 21. Jahrhundert
- Evoluzionismo e storicismo nelle scienze sociali: l’intenzionalità dell’azione umana contro il postulato di razionalità
- Per un’ontologia della soglia: note su natura e cultura in Philippe Descola
- Sucedáneos de la interacción humana en la narrativa de Javier Tomeo. Cambios en la (in)comunicación y en las formas de socialización entre El cazador de leones y La mirada de la muñeca hinchable
- L’estetica personalista di Luigi Stefanini e i suoi possibili sviluppi in ambito etico
- Grenze und Schranke: l’origine del soggetto kantiano
- Il conatus tra sforzo di esistere e desiderio di essere: Ricoeur lettore dell’Etica di Spinoza
- Identità digitale (?) – L’eclissi del soggetto e l’ipotesi della post-cultura
- Persona e storia. Una visuale filosofico-politica
Abstract: In her book Walled States: Waning Sovereignty (2010), the American political theorist Wendy Brown shows that today’s massive wall-building projects – whether in the United States, Israel, or Europe – are not primarily protective measures but rather must be understood as the expression of a fundamental crisis of the modern state. In her view, the erection of barricades is a desperate act of resistance of national sovereignty against its unavoidable demise in a globalized world. Therefore, according to Brown, the current border regimes represent but a final stage act that reflects the desire for clearly defined identities and must be deciphered as fear of a world that becomes ever more complex.
In my paper, I agree only in part with Brown’s theory of a ‘ruse of reason’ – that the building of border walls signifies, all appearances to the contrary, the demise of the sovereignty of the nation state. As convincing as her analyses may be, the staging of border regimes, which comprises not just the factual control of borders but also the bellicose political rhetoric surrounding the building of walls, is also a consciously used political instrument to transform democratic conditions, legal institutions, and social policy achievements within nation states. In my paper, I probe into this peculiar dialectic between, on the one hand, building walls at the borders and, on the other, dismantling borders of political discourse, both theoretically and by means of empirical examples.
To underpin my argument, I shall first focus on the United States under Donald Trump to show that the concentration on the building of a border wall between the United States and Mexico is accompanied by a weakening of security services vis-à-vis right-wing terror. After that, I shall demonstrate that Sebastian Kurz’s talk of shutting the Balkan route for migrants and shielding Austria from third-country migration implies a focused attack on the social partnership and the welfare state.
