Representation-48.

A politics that embraces its existence as
statement, as affirmative difference, not as
negation can escape the politics of the state. To
ignore or plagiarise representation, to refuse to
give it what it claims as its due, is to begin a
politics of statelessness. A politics which refuses
the state's authority to authorise what is a valued
statement and what isn't. A politics which is
always temporary, always becoming something other
than itself. Even useless hacks may come,
perversely enough, to be valued for the purity of
their uselessness. There is nothing that can't be
valued as a representation. The hack always has to
move on.

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