Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan Redfield Marc
Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan Redfield Marc Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of…
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Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan Redfield Marc
Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities.In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial shin phoneme. It has also acquired the ancillary meanings of slogan or clich . In modern European languages, shibboleth has come to mean a hard-to-falsify sign that winnows identities and establishes and confirms borders.
The various phenomena we sum up as neoliberalism and The semantic field of shibboleth thus seems keyed to the waning of the logos in an era of technical reproducibility--to the proliferation of technologies and practices of encryption, decryption, exclusion and inclusion that saturate modern life.