All Claims Are Representative Claims: Response to Thomás Zicman de Barros

Abstract

This response to Thomás Zicman de Barros argues that so-called post-representative movements do not avoid representation as speaking for. A deconstructive reading of Gayatri Spivak's distinction between Darstellung and Vertretung shows that, while they cannot be reduced to one another, they nonetheless imply one another. As a result, post-representative movements such as the 2013 Brazilian Jornadas de Junho movement do not escape representation as speaking-for.