From Critique of the Postcolony to a Postcolonial Form of Critique. On the Uses and Misuses of Foucault in Jean and John Comaroff's Work - Núm. 67, Enero 2019 - Revista de Estudios Sociales - Libros y Revistas - VLEX 772421081

From Critique of the Postcolony to a Postcolonial Form of Critique. On the Uses and Misuses of Foucault in Jean and John Comaroff's Work

AutorMaría del Rosario Acosta López
CargoPh.D. in Philosophy. Associate Professor at DePaul University
Páginas17-25
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From Critique of the Postcolony to a Postcolonial Form of Critique. On
the Uses and Misuses of Foucault in Jean and John Comaroff’s Work1*
María del Rosario Acosta López**
Received date: April 8, 2018 · Acceptance date: June 28, 2018 · Modication date: August 22, 2018
https://doi.org/10.7440/res67.2019.02
How to cite: Acosta López, María del Rosario. 2019. “From Critique of the Postcolony to a Postcolonial Form of Critique. On the
Uses and Misuses of Foucault in Jean and John Comaro’s Work”. Revista de Estudios Sociales 67: 17-25. https://doi.org/10.7440/
res67.2019.02
ABSTRACT | This paper develops a philosophical approach to Jean and John Comaros’ work by eshing out
and theoretically articulating the form of critique that the Comaros employ in their reading of the “postco-
lonial” condition. Even though Walter Benjamin’s classical correlation between law and violence provides the
framework for the kind of critique the Comaros perform, I want to show that when the question refers to
what kind of critique they undertake in the context of the postcolony, as well as what form it needs to take in
the specic context of the postcolonial world, it is the Comaros’ critical approaches to Michel Foucault rather
than to Benjamin that become particularly illuminating.
KEYWORDS | Author: Benjamin; Foucault; Jean and John Comaro; postcolonial critique
De una crítica de la pos-colonia a una crítica poscolonial: sobre los usos y desusos de Foucault en el trabajo
de Jean y John Comaroff
RESUMEN | Este artículo propone una aproximación losóca al trabajo de Jean y John Comaro, a través de
una articulación teórica de una determinada forma de crítica que dichos autores ponen en práctica en su lectura
de la condición “poscolonial”. Si bien la correlación clásica entre ley y violencia de Walter Benjamin sería la
referencia más evidente para una comprensión de los presupuestos losócos que se encuentran a la base
del concepto de crítica puesto en juego en el trabajo de los Comaro, el artículo propone más bien atender
al uso crítico que los Comaro hacen de Michel Foucault. Es sobre todo en el señalamiento de los límites de la
concepción de crítica foucaultiana que se ilumina lo que los Comaro, más allá de su crítica a la pos-colonia,
proponen articular en términos de una crítica poscolonial.
PALABRAS CLAVE | Autor: Benjamin; crítica poscolonial; Foucault; Jean y John Comaro
* This paper is the result of an ongoing research on decolonial and postcolonial forms of critique I am currently conducting at DePaul
University (United States) in conjunction with the Critical Theory Cluster at Northwestern University (United States). I presented
a first version of this paper in the context of a workshop on the work of Jean and John Comaroff organized by Julieta Lemaitre and
Esteban Restrepo at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).
** Ph.D. in Philosophy. Associate Professor at DePaul University. Latest publications: “Between Law and Violence: Towards a Re-thinking
of Legal Justice in Transitional Justice Contexts.” In Law and Violence, edited by Christoph Menke (with commentaries and response
from the author, commentaries by: Acosta, Ferrara, Fischer-Liscano, Garcia-D th ester University Press, nse from the author,
commentaries by: Acosta, Ferrara, üttman, Loick, and Morgan), 79-95. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018; “Ontology as
Critique: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Inoperative Community.” Research in Phenomenology 47: 108-123, 2017. * macostal@depaul.edu
1 I would lik e to thank Jul ieta Lemait re and Esteban Re strepo for organi zing the workshop a t Los Andes wit h Jean and John Coma -
ro and for giv ing me the chan ce to discuss a r st version of this p aper in that contex t. I would also li ke to thank my re viewers,
Rocío Zam brana and Diego Cag üeñas, for their gene rous reading and i nsightful s uggestions. Fin ally, thank s to Colin McQuil lan
for his jud icious reading of t his na l version and to Tiz iana Laudato f or her careful c opyedits.

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