The Leviathan Rematch

Rebel States as a Challenge to the Single Idea

Abstract

From the category of Rogue States, which has been used over the last 50 years to characterize States like Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea, and recently recycled to refer to the greatest contemporary threat to the US Empire: China, we seek in this paper to present a call for anti-imperialist uprising in the form of an institutional and thought rebellion against the impositions of the pensée unique. This aim is to be achieved through macrophilosophy and, more specifically, through the reflections on the book Topology of Violence by the South Korean philosopher, albeit of German cosmovision, Byung-Chul Han, who proposes a deep interpretation of the new forms of violence in contemporary society.  In fact, we seek precisely to arise the sense of urgency to take back into one's own hands the destiny of the Rechstaat, and of our Brazilian State in particular. To re-politicize all the instances that imperial domination has surreptitiously depoliticized and de-ideologized. For this immense and instigating task, we seek to take up a term by the Empire itself, which pejoratively denounces those few States in the world which still dare to stand against its absolute domination: Rogue States. Re-signified, State rebellion is posed as a challenge of creativity for the reconfiguration of the various moments of the Objective Spirit that the imperial zeal for concealing the violence involved in the mechanisms of its own domination ended up shattering.