Conclusion: Beyond Anti-Politics

Abstract

A brief summary of the preceding chapters is presented. It is suggested that the main weakness of Baudrillard’s work is the way in which his early theorizations of the code and the system of objects, when combined with a fatal rather than critical strategy, lead to a proclaimed rejection of any positivity of communication. Yet it is also observed that this position is not one that is rigorously maintained in Baudrillard’s work, nor could it be. Through the very act of writing at all he cannot help but speak of the singular. The proximity of reversible and deconstructive thought is remarked, in particular, in relation to Derrida’s late quasi-concept of auto-immunity. A number of comments are made on the background and readership of Derrida and Baudrillard and how they relate to the form their work took. Baudrillard’s work is presented, against the expectations of certain interpretations, as that of a thinker of language. In conclusion ‘a politics’ and transpolitics are distinguished from anti-politics in the senses used in relation to both politics and the political.