Heterotopologies of Resistance

Abstract

One of the most critical assets of contemporary political philosophy might be read through the gradual shift from the explanatory remedies sought by Cartesian logic of dualism towards critical interpretation. Besides opening new horizons of understanding going beyond the meta-narratives of modernity, the drift to critical and radical interpretation has brought forth alternative ways of generating the meaning of 'the political'. This paper, first, sets out to examine the epistemic vein of this transformation by introducing the spasmal error referring the crisis of meta-narration and representation. Heterotopology is, hence, interpreted as an anti-epistemology dispositif, and as an epistemic perhaps driven by not only deconstruction but also hermeneutics. Second, by enhancing metastable intensification of resistance as paracaesural activity, this paper aims at interpreting the critical contexture of heterotopia as a spatiotemporal and helix milieu of positing a hermeneutic link between deconstruction and aporetic politics.