This also brings us to why Badiou characterizes his position alternately as "ethical" and "
metapolitical." As mentioned earlier, Badiou does not want to provide a programme of theory for politics any more than he wants to concede all ground to the skeptic.
The task is immense, historic, and ultimately
metapolitical. No single individual, nor several, nor even an overwhelming majority can accomplish it.
While, as Honneth writes, the book itself is intended to be '
metapolitical' (5), he also categorically states that he wants to construct 'a theory aimed at bringing about practical change', which 'lives up to contemporary reality' (53; 50).
However, as noted, an endeavor to save the heterogeneous sensible poses two distinct threats whereby art is either transformed into "a
metapolitical act" or becomes identified with "the forms of everyday aestheticized life" (Ranciere, 2006, Para.
Your work is certainly
metapolitical in the sense that it articulates the stakes of particular discourses, technologies, and things like that, but I guess my question would be, should historiography have a political valence that's openly acknowledged and engaged with, and how do you see your work in terms of this?
From this, Rifkin (2009, page 106) concludes, a critique of racial discourse cannot address "the structuring force of sovereignty" in US settler society, or "the ways the exceptionalization of Native peoples works to legitimize the unconstrained
metapolitical power of the United States to invent, enforce, and alter the statuses/categories/concepts in which Native peoples are made to signify".
Ursula Mayer's recent exhibition "Not a curse, nor a bargain, but a hymn" offered a precis of the dominant culture, melding literary "classics," fashion editorials, the
metapolitical propaganda of the liberal press, science-fiction mise-en-scene, soap operas, and high-end commercial display.
"Political Geography: Globalization,
Metapolitical Geographies and Everyday Life." Progress in Human Geography 26 (3): 391-400.
More importantly, even if the agency and court both get science "right," an opinion that sufficiently explains the science and policy at issue provides valuable information highlighting the proto-, meso-, and
metapolitical aspects of the case.
Hirsch analyzes Bottome's narrative method as working at a "
metapolitical level" where "Phyllis combats dangerous Wagnerian myths with reference to new or perhaps more accurately, specifically reworked, ones.
Understanding the layers of politics that underpin the use of knowledge and the discourses that frame that knowledge is important for helping researchers navigate the 'demands for
metapolitical democratization' (Fraser 2005:86).