Towards the last pages of the Spectral Nationality, Cheah alludes to the state of the disintegration of the political body and contrasts it with Aristotle’s earlier organismic conception of the body, previously discussed in chapter 1 (p.52). I’m assuming he’s referring to the transnational flexible accumulation of capital and the invasive structure of the corporation as a global powerful force in local and global politics as the main causes of this disintegration. Even though he disagrees with Hardt and Negri’s conceptualization of the multitude as a body of globally oppressed underclass of neocolonial forces of globalization and capitalism, he seems to be drawing from Deleuze’s conception the body without organs (382) as he discusses nonorganic vitalism. Although he moves away from Hardt, Negri, and Deleuze, as he makes a case for freedom’s relation to finitude and the ghost of the postcolonial state, there are some traces of their ideas in his characterization of the ghost of the postcolonial nation that haunts global capital even as it eviscerates the power of the poco-state. Cheah suggests that this haunting is a new organizing mechanism of libratory politics “the most apposite figure for freedom today” (395). In class we mostly dispelled his arguments, but I don’t remember us talking about the postcolonial ghost that haunts capital’s new world order as an articulation of freedom in it’s “reincarnation.” Is this a contraction to his critiques of finitude and libratory politics as a road toward nationalism?
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