- Title Pages
- Preface
- Political Theologies
- Introduction
- The Gods of Politics in Early Greek Cities
- Church, State, Resistance
- Politics and Finitude: The Temporal Status of Augustine's Civitas Permixta
- The Scandal of Religion: Luther and Public Speech in the Reformation
- On the Names of God
- The Permanence of the Theologico-political?
- Violence in the State of Exception: Reflections on Theologico-Political Motifs in Benjamin and Schmitt
- Critique, Coercion, and Sacred Life in Benjamin's “Critique of Violence”
- From Rosenzweig to Levinas: Philosophy of War
- Levinas, Spinoza, and the Theologico-Political Meaning of Scripture
- On the Relations Between the Secular Liberal State and Religion
- Prepolitical Moral Foundations of a Free Republic
- Bush's God Talk
- Pluralism and Faith
- Subjects of Tolerance: Why We Are Civilized and They Are the Barbarians
- Religion, Liberal Democracy, and Citizenship
- Toleration Without Tolerance: Enlightenment and the Image of Reason
- Saint John: The Miracle of Secular Reason
- Reinhabiting Civil Disobedience
- Rogue Democracy and the Hidden God
- Intimate Publicities: Retreating the Theologico-Political in the Chávez Regime?
- The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed
- How to Recognize a Muslim When You See One: Western Secularism and the Politics of Conversion
- Laïcité, or the Politics of Republican Secularism
- Trying to Understand French Secularism
- Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh, and the Politics of Tolerance in the Netherlands
- Can a Minority Retain Its Identity in Law? The 2005 Multatuli Lecture
- Prophetic Justice in a Home Haunted by Strangers: Transgressive Solidarity and Trauma in the Work of an Israeli Rabbis' Group
- Mysticism and the Foundation of the Open Society: Bergsonian Politics
- The Agency of Assemblages and the North American Blackout
- Automatic Theologies Surrealism and the Politics of Equality
- Theoscopy: Transparency, Omnipotence, and Modernity
- Come On, Humans, One More Effort if You Want to Be Post-Christians!
- The Right Not to Use Rights: Human Rights and the Structure of Judgments
Intimate Publicities: Retreating the Theologico-Political in the Chávez Regime?
Intimate Publicities: Retreating the Theologico-Political in the Chávez Regime?
- Chapter:
- (p.401) Intimate Publicities: Retreating the Theologico-Political in the Chávez Regime?
- Source:
- Political Theologies
- Author(s):
Rafael Sánchez
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter demonstrates how a “theologico-political balloon”, the Bolivarian republic of Hugo Chávez regime in Venezuela, has been deflated instantly by mediatic effects. In power since December 1998, the Chávez regime has been characterized by a radical constitutionalism and a political theology that identifies with the nation's dead founding hero, Simon Bolívar. The chapter evokes the hilarious media event that epitomized—or triggered—the regime's loss of auratic authority, shifting the overall tone of public debate from deference to ridicule, as the military was put on the spot for its alleged impotence via the (first anonymous, then televised) sending of women's colored lingerie. This is a fateful provocation whose violence is more symbolic than physical. Yet another sample of an effective politics of scandal and insult, just as it is one of sexual politics (or, rather, of using the sexual politically), the “panties episode” intervened in the public domain of a state whose gendered identity and auratic authority are largely contingent upon its being demarcated from the domain of privacy and feminine sexuality.
Keywords: Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, theologico-political, political theology, Simon Bolívar, military, media, sexual politics, feminine sexuality, scandal
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Political Theologies
- Introduction
- The Gods of Politics in Early Greek Cities
- Church, State, Resistance
- Politics and Finitude: The Temporal Status of Augustine's Civitas Permixta
- The Scandal of Religion: Luther and Public Speech in the Reformation
- On the Names of God
- The Permanence of the Theologico-political?
- Violence in the State of Exception: Reflections on Theologico-Political Motifs in Benjamin and Schmitt
- Critique, Coercion, and Sacred Life in Benjamin's “Critique of Violence”
- From Rosenzweig to Levinas: Philosophy of War
- Levinas, Spinoza, and the Theologico-Political Meaning of Scripture
- On the Relations Between the Secular Liberal State and Religion
- Prepolitical Moral Foundations of a Free Republic
- Bush's God Talk
- Pluralism and Faith
- Subjects of Tolerance: Why We Are Civilized and They Are the Barbarians
- Religion, Liberal Democracy, and Citizenship
- Toleration Without Tolerance: Enlightenment and the Image of Reason
- Saint John: The Miracle of Secular Reason
- Reinhabiting Civil Disobedience
- Rogue Democracy and the Hidden God
- Intimate Publicities: Retreating the Theologico-Political in the Chávez Regime?
- The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed
- How to Recognize a Muslim When You See One: Western Secularism and the Politics of Conversion
- Laïcité, or the Politics of Republican Secularism
- Trying to Understand French Secularism
- Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh, and the Politics of Tolerance in the Netherlands
- Can a Minority Retain Its Identity in Law? The 2005 Multatuli Lecture
- Prophetic Justice in a Home Haunted by Strangers: Transgressive Solidarity and Trauma in the Work of an Israeli Rabbis' Group
- Mysticism and the Foundation of the Open Society: Bergsonian Politics
- The Agency of Assemblages and the North American Blackout
- Automatic Theologies Surrealism and the Politics of Equality
- Theoscopy: Transparency, Omnipotence, and Modernity
- Come On, Humans, One More Effort if You Want to Be Post-Christians!
- The Right Not to Use Rights: Human Rights and the Structure of Judgments
