The Eleventh Plague: Thinking Ecologically after Derrida

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-102
Author(s):  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
New World ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
World Order ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
New World Order ◽  
System P ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
The Way

This chapter develops an eleventh “plague” onto Jacques Derrida's list of ten plagues of the New World Order in his Specters of Marx: the growing global climate crisis. Forging an amalgam from Derrida and Heidegger, it shows that the eleventh plague was not just “one more plague” but was at the heart of the first ten, or at least was intimately implied or caught up in them. In the most summary form, this would be to show that questions of violence, law, and social justice are inseparable from ecological sustainability. A similar move would demonstrate that another candidate for the eleventh plague—the animal holocaust—is closely connected both with the first ten plagues and ecological sustainability, perhaps serving as a bridge of sorts. Derrida's remarks about the animal holocaust, and about human suffering and misery, are set in the context of people's denial, blindness, and refusal to acknowledge these phenomena, and the way that human suffering especially represents the contradiction, the hidden waste, produced by an ever more efficiently functioning system.

scholarly journals The New World Order and the Unmasking of the Neo-Colonial Present

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Lilijana Burcar
Keyword(s):  
Physical Abuse ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Local People ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
The Way

In his dramatic sketch The New World Order Pinter exposes practices of psychological and physical abuse targeted at local people who resist neo-colonial advancements in territories directly occupied or indirectly controlled by Western hegemonic powers. Through the deployment of Pinteresque double-layered meanings conveyed through seemingly ordinary, everyday language, the drama unveils the ideological premises and operating principles of neo-colonial discourse. The paper discusses the way Pinter blasts apart a seemingly neutral Western rhetoric of humanitarian militarism, focusing on the discursive strategies by means of which neo-imperial violence, torture and massive dispossession of local populations are justified and naturalized.

Migration Without a Face

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-223
Author(s):  
Philip E. Phillis ◽  
Philip E. Phillis
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
The West ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

The author addresses three major case studies which articulate the notion of a refugee crisis in thought-provoking ways. Indeed, The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), Ephemeral Town/Efimeri Poli (2000) and The Way to the West/O Dromos Pros ti Dysi (2003) merge conventions of art cinema and documentary in order to challenge discourses of charity and the very concept of a ‘crisis’. In their venture, filmmakers convey mass migration as a tragedy of displacement and homelessness. They expose the reluctance of Greece in its role as host, the new world order of globalization and the hardships of refugees, trapped in prostitution rings and in perpetual search for a home away from home. The debate on representation is extended in order to critically engage with problematic notions of anonymity that stereotypically adorns representations of refugees and it is argued that, in their attempt to screen mass migration as a tragedy, filmmakers reinforce the silence and victimhood of refugees.

scholarly journals THE IMPOERTANS OF USING TECHNOLOGI IN ENGLIS TEACHING ADN LEARNING

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prodi_PGMI FTIK IAIN Palopo
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Way

This paper is focused on the description of technology role in English teaching and learning. Globalization has reacted a new world order for doing business. New information and comunication technologies (ICTs) have dramatically changed the way we live, learn, work, and even think about work.

The Eleventh Plague: Thinking Ecologically after Derrida

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Creative Transformation ◽  
Climate Crisis

Derrida has been condemned by some and drawn into empty culture wars by others. He himself hardly ever tried to correct or contain this profligacy. But all of us who have followed Derrida at some point face the question of inheritance. What is it to inherit the work, the writings, the insights of another? Derrida animates the question of inheritance in Specters of Marx, offering a model that would require selection and creative transformation, even as, he insists, a gift sometimes calls for ingratitude. How should we apply these ideas to reading Derrida himself? Do we have to transform the idea of transformation to avoid just following him? To be faithful to Derrida do we have to betray him? Concretely, in response to the ten plagues that Derrida names in Specters of Marx, I insist on an eleventh plague—our growing global climate crisis, formulated at something like an ‘ontological’ level. Forging a Derrida/Heidegger hybrid, this chapter argues that the eleventh plague is not just one more plague, but is at the heart of the first ten: questions of violence, law, and social justice are inseparable from ecological sustainability.

scholarly journals Renewing Party Scholarship: Lessons From Abroad

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 577-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
The Way

In no domain of political science scholarship have we paid a higher price for our discipline’s insistence on separating “American” and “Comparative” studies than in the domain of parties, and never has the error of our ways been more striking than now. Although we have readily consented to weave such terms as “globalism”, “interdependence”, and even “new world order” casually into our discourse, most of us have not seriously imagined that the momentous developments these terms summon to mind have serious meaning for the way we study our own political parties-nor have we made significant changes in the way we study the parties of others.

scholarly journals Global Climate Socialism (GCS)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Nils-Axel Mörner
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
New World ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
International Recognition ◽  
Anthropogenic Co2 ◽  
Physical Laws

Climate has always changed, and will always change. The present global warming (1970-2000) is real, but driven by natural forces (NGW) not anthropogenic (CO2) forces (AGW). Observational facts and physical laws set the frames of what is possible, and what must be discarded as nonsense. Despite this the IPCC concept of AGW forcing has gained remarkable international recognition; not because of its own merits but thanks to a very effective lobbying campaign. It has rather taken the form of a new world order with obeying, paying and silence in the center, all strong signs of the establishment of a global climatic socialism system.

The Rise and Fall of Global Climate Policy: Stockholm to Rio 1992, Rio + 20 and Beyond

2013 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 1350004
Author(s):  
Mukul SANWAL
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
World Order ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Unresolved Issue ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
The Core ◽  
Resource Needs ◽  
Global Vision

Reconciling competing resource needs with respect to maintaining lifestyles and eradication of poverty is at the core of the climate negotiations, and the global biophysical limits to growth should mean lifestyle changes not depriving the poor. With prospects for legally binding commitments fading, new rules to establish national carbon budgets, shifting the focus from flows to stocks of carbon in the atmosphere, will be more scientific and lead to sustainability of our common wellbeing. The way the issue of global environmentalism is now being framed around modifying longer term trends in consumption and production patterns may succeed in securing international cooperation in a manner that the focus on percentage reductions in greenhouse gases, that considered symptoms rather than the causes of climate change, was not able to achieve. The unresolved issue is whether in writing its own urban future China will shape an alternative global vision. Redistribution has so far been kept out of the agenda of the United Nations, and new global goals and rules to share both responsibility and prosperity can lead to a new world order.

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