Representation-45.

The politics of representation is always the
politics of the state. The state is nothing but the
policing of representation's adequacy to the body of
what it represents. Even in its most radical form,
the politics of representation always presupposes
an abstract or ideal state that would act as
guarantor of its chosen representations. It yearns
for a state that would recognise this oppressed
ethnicity, or sexuality, but which is nevertheless
still a desire for a state, and a state that, in
the process, is not challenged as an statement of
class interest, but is accepted as the judge of
representation.

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