{"id":13985,"date":"2020-04-20T17:30:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=13985"},"modified":"2020-04-20T17:30:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:30:58","slug":"badiou-exerpts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2020\/04\/20\/badiou-exerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Badiou exerpts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Trump<\/em> first published in German in 2017, English version 2019, Polity Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alain Badiou Peter Englemann For a Politcs of the Common Good <\/em>first published in German in 2017, English version 2019, Polity Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Confrontations Alain Badiou Alain Finkielkraut<\/em>, first published in French 2010, English version 2014, Polity Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Imperialism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So what happened then? The whole world entered a competition for the control, plundering and exploitation of natural resources. This new situation resulted either in weak, corrupt states that obediently served the colonial power, or in attempts to create stronger states that could show greater resistance to imperial pressure, or finally in what I call ‘zones’<\/strong>: areas from which the state has entirely or almost entirely disappeared. It was in this system of state destabilization that imperialism found its new mode of existence. A zone largely or entirely devoid of state structures is essentially open to those with the most capital, the most mercenaries and the greatest capacities for intervention. Thus the majority of African territories today are being fought over by different imperialist groups: one finds Chinese forces in Sudan and Cameroon, there are rivalries between China and France in central Africa and so on. I call that ‘zoning’: a new form of imperialism that, in stead of installing states that are tied to a colonial power and completely subordinate to it, either creates weak states that are susceptible to corruption and with support from the metropolis, use the police to oppress the populace, or – if the respective state has behaved rebelliously and is not trusted — completely open zones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know that states like Libya under Gaddafi, Iraq under Assad were not really susceptible to the influence of Western power, because they had long established various alliances of their own, as well as having more distant relations with Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGELMANN: But let’s not forget the imperialism of the period between the Second World War and the fall of the Soviet Union, the phase of imperialism in which the West and the East formed two opposing blocs in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As soon as it became apparent that the weakening of the USSR would also weaken its allies, these states were simply destroyed. The new situation was exploited to destroy them. I completely agree with you. but this led to a complete dissolution of state structures. this ultimately resulted in ravaged zones that were controlled by armed gangs, and the powers tried their best to negotiate with them. Whole sections of Africa are in this state: the entire eastern Congo, the south of Sudan, large parts of Cameroon, Rwanda, Somalia and now also Libya<\/strong>. All of these zones are completely at the mercy of military interventions by local and foreign powers. with this form of politics, which I call the ‘new imperialism’, one could say that the open battle for control of natural and local resources has begun anew. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump first published in German in 2017, English version 2019, Polity Press Alain Badiou Peter Englemann For a Politcs of the Common Good first published in German in 2017, English version 2019, Polity Press Confrontations Alain Badiou Alain Finkielkraut, first published in French 2010, English version 2014, Polity Press The New Imperialism So what happened … Continue reading “Badiou exerpts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badiou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13989,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions\/13989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}