Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this
metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political …

The response to an uncontrolled spread of disease often incites a commingling of medical,
moral, and political panic. Whether in the context of threats presented by early plagues, to …

There are two directions or pathways this book takes up, that of late twentieth and early
twenty-first century political theory, and that of paradigmatic ways by which the urban may be …

This paper outlines and engages with Jacques Derrida's notion of 'autoimmunity'to argue
that it offers a unique resource for understanding the potential for critique inherent in and …

This article analyzes the United States biosecurity state's orchestration of the COVID-19
phenomenon into a public health emergency, tracing the legal platforms that made this …

While fidelity is a crucial aspect of Jacques Derrida's thinking as it pertains to issues of faith,
ethics, and responsibility, this key position in deconstructionist discourse has hardly yet …

A street art painting of Jesus Christ, with a crown of thorns on his head and a placard
hanging around his neck proclaiming “Mi grant 4 Life” peers out from a wall in a street in …

This article revisits long-standing critiques of the role of metaphor in immunological
discourse. Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead's speculative philosophy of organism, I focus …

The paper addresses some rhetorical uses of the figure of water management from the
perspective of an affirmative approach to contamination which Derrida saw as constitutive of …

This thesis puts forward a reinterpretation of the political significance of Jacques Derrida's
concept of autoimmunity. Finding that the generalisation of autoimmunity cannot guarantee …