1Ecole des Mines Paris, 60 bld St Michel 75006, Paris, France. E-mail: latour@csi.ensmp.fr
Abstract
Political enunciation remains an enigma as long as it is considered from the standpoint of information transfer. It remains as unintelligible as religious talk. The paper explores the specificty of this regime and especially the strange link it has with the canonical definition of enunciation in linguistics and semiotics. The 'political circle' is reconstituted and thus also the reasons why a 'transparent' or 'rational'political speech act destroys the very conditions of group formation.
Contemporary Political Theory (2003) 2, 143-164. doi:10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300092