#de-persons

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In Defence of De-persons

For those of us who have emerged in relationship to rather than via self-determination, how does the affirmation of de-person-ness offer a new form of political agency? Johanna Hedva foregrounds interdepency, care, and solidarity in her defence of the undercommons

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hedva 

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Before I go further, I’d like to claim the soil that I stand on, so I can dig as deep as I can down into it. I am not a representative for a specific kind of experience; I am presentative of it. That is, I’m doing it right now, in front of you, and in front of myself. I am a proponent of aporia: thinking with holes in it, thinking that contradicts itself, that circles back, that reveals the knotting and fraying and re-weaving of an argument so that it contains all of its mistakes, so that you can see them, and so that I won’t forget how I got here. My address is from an affirmation of messiness, a testimony of and to disorder, an honouring of incomplete-ness. Anne Boyer writes: “It’s not just our errors we become brave about, but our projects’—and our own—incompleteness.” So here I am, in transit.

Johanna Hedva, In Defense of De-Persons