Wednesday, 8 December 2021

The immunological dispositive, which extends beyond the strictly social and onto the whole of communal life, harbors a blind spot: everything foreign is simply combated and warded off. The object of immune defense is the foreign as such. Even if it has no hostile intentions, even if it poses no danger, it is eliminated on the basis of its Otherness.

     Byung-Chul Han

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 Oh dear. You've gone full critical theory deep dive again. I'm going to need to light a Derrida-scented candle and wear sunglasses ...