On Reflexive Racism: Disavowal, Deferment, and the Lacanian Subject

IF 0.2 4区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI:10.1353/dia.2020.0024

J. Black

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Abstract

Abstract:The term "reflexivity" continues to maintain an interpretive hegemony in discussions on modernity and the Self. As a form of praxis, applications of reflexivity frequently rely upon an acknowledged awareness of one's self-conscious attitudes, dispositions, behaviors, and motives. This essay takes aim at such contentions, exploring the extent to which examples of racism rely upon a level of reflexivity, best encapsulated in Žižek's "reflexive racism." Specifically, examples of non-racism/anti-racism assert the formal promotion of a monadic subject which is solely adept at "uncovering" and "relinquishing" its racism (disavowal), and depoliticizes racism by relocating and relativizing it to a particular sociohistorical context (deferment). In outlining this response, specific attention is given to Lacan's subject of enunciation and subject of the enunciated to show that it is in the obfuscation of one's "position of enunciation" that examples of reflexive racism reside.

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反思性种族主义：否认、叛逃与拉康主体

摘要:在现代性与自我的讨论中，“反身性”一词继续保持着解释性霸权。作为一种实践形式，反身性的应用通常依赖于对自我意识态度、性格、行为和动机的公认意识。本文以这些争论为目标，探索种族主义的例子在多大程度上依赖于反身性，这在Žižek的“反身性种族主义”中得到了最好的概括。具体而言，非种族主义/反种族主义的例子主张正式促进一个单一的主题，它只擅长于“发现”和“放弃”其种族主义(否认)，并通过将种族主义重新定位和相对化到特定的社会历史背景(延迟)而使种族主义非政治化。在概述这个回应时，特别注意拉康的表达主体和被表达主体，以表明它是在一个人的“表达位置”的混淆中，反射性种族主义的例子存在。

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