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TY - JOUR
T1 - Fire as a metaphor of (im)mobility
AU - Diken, Bulent
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The article deals with fire as a metaphor of radical socio‐political change, focusing on the paradoxical relationship between mobility and immobility. It opens with a topological discussion where fire signifies an instance of ‘absolute immobility’, or, politically speaking, the ‘emergency break’ of the empty, chronological time. There is, however, a pharmakon‐like, aporetic dimension to fire. The article articulates this dimension in the context of nihilism, linking this to the sociology of mobility.
AB - The article deals with fire as a metaphor of radical socio‐political change, focusing on the paradoxical relationship between mobility and immobility. It opens with a topological discussion where fire signifies an instance of ‘absolute immobility’, or, politically speaking, the ‘emergency break’ of the empty, chronological time. There is, however, a pharmakon‐like, aporetic dimension to fire. The article articulates this dimension in the context of nihilism, linking this to the sociology of mobility.
KW - Topology
KW - body without organs
KW - revolution
KW - separation
KW - radical nihilism
KW - passive nihilism
KW - sociology of mobility
U2 - 10.1080/17450101.2011.532657
DO - 10.1080/17450101.2011.532657
M3 - Journal article
VL - 6
SP - 95
EP - 102
JO - Mobilities
JF - Mobilities
SN - 1745-0101
IS - 1
ER -