ABSTRACT
The slippages between autoimmunity and immunity are telling and certainly problematize the notion that any affirmative biopolitics would be able to just 'move on' from deconstruction – a standpoint shared by Cary Wolfe. He describes connection between the immunological paradigm, systems theory, deconstruction and pragmatism' to address the problem of 'controlling autoimmunity' and 'political effectivity in an increasingly heterogeneous field of biopolitical actors and agents. Autoimmunity in the time of the 'posthuman', however, remains a vital strategy, as Vanessa Lemm explains in her introduction to Esposito's Terms of the Political. In his medical history of humanity, Roy Porter writes of a great surge in the interest in immunology in the late 1980s due to the discovery of AIDS. More interesting still, the more complex and 'mysterious' the workings of the immune system become, the more a notion of a body and of life more generally become entangled.
