Nancy Fraser: «Is the hijab debate similar to the one on abortion?»

[kingofaikido]

the political is framed within 'religion' as a visual term of reference because the secular wishes to monopolize the space of diversity, even if other cultures also admit diversity into their ranks. its all about the semiotics of space, identity etc. politics is already dead since at least Bucky Fullers design revolution. we're only playing with images now. there are no borders we can't cross. nation-states are simply doing the dirty work the roman catholic empire did: policing paradise

[kingofaikido]

the reason 'religion' is so predominant in the media today is because there's a desire on the part of power to create a false polarization. 'religion' after all cannot be defined, but is used as an ontological football to stake out a secular ontological space that no longer or ever never existed. capitalism or communism is not an ontological category.. but neo-liberalism isn't either, and yet it is convenient to conjure an identity so as to stir false conflicts that will divert attention..

[fcblaugrana0]

@kingofaikido what power? comprised of whom exactly? i agree they are not ontological but can you deny there are inherent conflicts?

[kingofaikido]

@fcblaugrana0 1) read Foucault. 2) read Levinas on the importance of the 'face' in his ethics beyond reason..(secular religion?) 3) conflicts exist as fictions. Like film, the media make us feel pseudo-feelings, picture the world in unreal terms. The secular view is what Baudrillard said is now orbital, running on parallel lines that never meet. Everything is already dead, and we're only playing back the tapes. We're living the secular illusion of communication, democracy, politics, life.

[kingofaikido]

@fcblaugrana0 I mean by 'power', the military-industrial-government­al-media-university complex as understood in the history of Western-Christian secularity.. I include the notion of the 'face' as Levinas formulated the basic ethical relation as primary in the French ruling against the hijab in public.. "The Face" as a mark of secular ethics, and thus exclusive, superficial, narcissistic. Divinity is secularized, placed within the human F-2-F relation. Ironically, Levinas destroys privacy..