Why so timely? Politics of representation and its entanglement in presentism

Name: Why so timely? Politics of representation and its entanglement in presentism
Author: Güçler, Arda

İsim	Why so timely? Politics of representation and its entanglement in presentism
Yazar	Güçler, Arda
Basım Tarihi:	2020-02-01
Basım Yeri	- Sage
Konu	Democratic theory, Jacques Derrida, Nadia Urbinati, Political representation, Untimeliness
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	0191-4537
Kayıt Numarası	51c0dee9-4119-49c0-b8a3-f784ac09aa98
Lokasyon	International Relations
Tarih	2020-02-01
Örnek Metin	What gives representation its democratic essence? The recent democratic theory literature, particularly spearheaded by Nadia Urbinati, defends representative mediation as a facilitator of ongoing democratic contestation and revision. While I agree with this agonistic defence, I take issue with how Urbinati construes it. For her, representative contestation works in the teleological sense of testing opinions over time and sublimating them into ideological forms as a safeguard against the threat of immediacy (i.e. arbitrariness and authenticity). This article locates the traces of such presentism within Urbinati's own teleological framework, which I see as compromising her commitment to the agonistic vein in representative politics. When our relationship to the future is imagined from such a teleological angle, I argue, the scope of our representative options becomes significantly narrowed down and the possibility of beginning anew looks quite slim. I develop this critique by tapping into Jacques Derrida's affirmation of untimeliness.
DOI	10.1177/0191453719839452
Cilt	46

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Why so timely? Politics of representation and its entanglement in presentism

Yazar Güçler, Arda

Basım Tarihi 2020-02-01

Basım Yeri - Sage

Konu Democratic theory, Jacques Derrida, Nadia Urbinati, Political representation, Untimeliness

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 0191-4537

Kayıt Numarası 51c0dee9-4119-49c0-b8a3-f784ac09aa98

Lokasyon International Relations

Tarih 2020-02-01

Örnek Metin What gives representation its democratic essence? The recent democratic theory literature, particularly spearheaded by Nadia Urbinati, defends representative mediation as a facilitator of ongoing democratic contestation and revision. While I agree with this agonistic defence, I take issue with how Urbinati construes it. For her, representative contestation works in the teleological sense of testing opinions over time and sublimating them into ideological forms as a safeguard against the threat of immediacy (i.e. arbitrariness and authenticity). This article locates the traces of such presentism within Urbinati's own teleological framework, which I see as compromising her commitment to the agonistic vein in representative politics. When our relationship to the future is imagined from such a teleological angle, I argue, the scope of our representative options becomes significantly narrowed down and the possibility of beginning anew looks quite slim. I develop this critique by tapping into Jacques Derrida's affirmation of untimeliness.

DOI 10.1177/0191453719839452

Cilt 46