Abstract
This article turns to psychoanalytic theories of the setting in an effort to build on Bonnie Honig’s concept of ‘public things’. A privative (and not just private) dimension to public things is posited. The privative is defined as a violence that emanates from an unrepresentable thing in the setting. Like transitional objects, settings manage the privative’s violence, but the thing thwarts these attempts at management. The public is thought to be managed through a reduction of surplus populations to things, and this reduction is illustrated through a brief discussion of the neocolonial setting.
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