Andreea Nicutar

Society Goes to War: "Multiculturalism's Failure" Between the Camp and the People Andreea Nicutar

The generalized verdict on the failure of European multiculturalism, for once unambiguous across borders and distinct governmental logics and the political call for the mobilization of society in the defense of the state is the background on which this paper discriminates the terms of a present warlike discourse of the grieved liberal society. The productive discourse of war against an insidious enemy dwelling inside the liberal way-of-life poses at the heart of this crisis the danger of degeneracy of democratic societies and of a new vitality of the pernicious parts spreading further infection with disloyalty to democracy. This paper reconnects with a Foucauldian analysis of racism whose stakes are not in the blood struggle but in the project of biopolitical security whose field of operation is in the new spatialities (their constituting terms and technologies) which organize the hierarchies of forms of life. The failure of multiculturalism as a failure of liberal disciplinary governmentality is the entry point of a struggle whose terms are as much geopolitical as biopolitical, and the terms of the societal danger have displaced old topologies of decision over sovereign exclusion.