https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12619?af=R Abstract

There has been a proliferation in the use of the concept of prefiguration to describe and understand many of the protest and social change movements of the past decade. However, there are key aspects of the concept that remain unexplored. In this paper I consider telos and justice, and unveil a temporal paradox arising from the thinking behind prefiguration. Rather than this temporal paradox of prefiguration being the undoing of the concept, it does in fact have the potential to be its strength. The purpose of this paper is to assert, by drawing on Derrida's notion of the impossibility of justice, that the temporal paradox of prefiguration is not something to be resolved but instead is to be foregrounded and navigated. I use research from a food sovereignty collective in the north of Spain to offer an illustration of a prefigurative economic politics that embraces Derrida's justice"?as"?an"?impossibility.

Resumen

En la ??ltima d?cada ha habido una proliferaci??n del uso del concepto de prefiguraci??n para describir y entender movimientos sociales y de protesta contempor??neos. Sin embargo, hay muchos puntos claves de este concepto que necesitan explorarse y desarrollarse. En este art??culo, examino telos y justicia, y revelo una paradoja temporal que emerge en las teorizaciones sobre la prefiguraci??n. Esta paradoja no niega el concepto, sino que lo fortalece. El prop??sito de este art??culo es afirmar, usando la noci??n de Derrida de la imposibilidad de la justicia, que esta paradoja temporal no se puede resolver pero que debemos desvelarla y aprender a navegarla. Usando las pr??cticas econ??micas y pol??ticas de un colectivo de soberan??a alimentaria en el norte de Espa??a, proporciono un ejemplo de prefiguraci??n que refleja la imposibilidad de la justicia de Derrida.

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