From Vampirism to Savagery: Biting and the Politics of Capitalist Productive Relations
Abstract
In República salvaje, Jacques Lezra returns to Lucretius to re-think the republic against the anti-democratic political context of our times. Lucretius’ politics allow us to think the material aspect of the encounter with others, in order to think the republic from its materiality. Lezra appeals to Lucretius in order to open the possibility to create a multiple sovereignty that corresponds to a savage republic. As an analogy of this Republic, Lezra suggests the defective biting between lovers as Jacques Derrida understands it, as a sixth sense whose de-organizing and horizontalizing power is analogous to the Lucretian atomic sex. This article analyses how this biting is the metaphor of a political relation that overcomes the fascism of our times, which is the result of the way the capitalist axiomatic productive relations are organized as a vampire-like power structure in the words of Marx.
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