On the Threshold of Living Together: Deconstructive Inventions of the “at large” of the World

This paper explores deconstruction at large as a way of inheriting Jacques Derrida’s work in addressing contemporary issues of racism and reductive ontologies. Derrida’s critique of globalisation and neoliberal politics highlights the potential for living together free from the negative limits of “reasoned cohabitation” and “the community or otherwise of the world.” The paper focuses on three aspects: 1) imagining a world beyond the globalisation-driven horizon, 2) an anti-racist and anti-colonial understanding of being, emphasizing non-hierarchical relations between different singularities, and 3) dismantling ontocolonial politics by creating new concepts and frameworks for living together. The paper also addresses the challenges of imagining coexistence with those excluded from the right to live well, questioning how such a task can be pursued beyond the nation-state as part of a community of the world that resists communitarian and nationalist imaginaries and politics.