Politics is the transgression of taboos rather than the forward movement of reason

Evidence

By treating sovereignty as the violation of prohibitions, Bataille reopens the question of the limits of the political. Politics, in this case, is not the forward dialectical movement of reason. Politics can only be traced as a spiral transgression, as that difference that disorients the very idea of the limit. More specifically, politics is the difference put into play by the violation of a taboo. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 33

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘spiral transgression’ model contrasts with the Hegelian dialectical-progress model of politics — a key vocabulary building block for the Islamophobia readings. — connects to: My Beautiful Laundrette exemplifies transgressive identity politics through its contradictions; Conflict between values is the raw material of political citizenship — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 683; Politics is living with tension rather than postponing criticism (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Defines Mbembe’s Bataillean lexicon: politics as taboo-violation.

Broader Connections

• Politics is living with tension rather than postponing criticism #corroborates (0.85)