Wild Performance, Sovereign (In)Decision. Reading Jacques Lezra’s República Salvaje
Abstract
Jacques Lezra publishes República salvaje: de la naturaleza de las cosas in Spring 2020: a compilation of texts that seeks a radical, material and wild republicanism derived from interlaced readings of Lucretius, Marx, Machiavelli and Cervantes, among others. Its aims are finding ways to weaken the strong institution from the defect of its own concept, thus enabling instances of multiple and contingent sovereignty. The book, however, is also subjected to the very demands of this radical and material republicanism. Therefore, in this article I carry out a performance of reading of the wild republic, following its way of thinking about the nature of the sovereign decision, to thus situate myself in the modes of subjectivity that it proposes. By taking its materialist thesis to the extreme, I ultimately seek to reveal the book’s strong utopian logic and its intimate relationship to reading as a performance of justice.
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