Ethics: An Impossible Politics—Perversion, Law and Racial Difference
Andreja Zevnik
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 a… Show more
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