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centuries, including strains of deconstruction, postcolonial theory, and femi-
nism? A longer view of the dynamics—in particular, the willed and unwilled
performativity—of theoretical politics (not political theory, but politicized
theory) could reveal much about the position of intellectuals in general, and of
intellectuals in minority groups in particular, vis-à-vis institutions of political
power, and their aspirations and predicaments as they engage in the irreducibly
ambivalent project of thinking politics.
