Indigenous Sovereignty and the Being of the Occupier: Manifesto for a White Australian Philosophy of Origins (Transmission)

Without exception, everyone is called upon today to construct his/her patriotic identity as a response to the supreme imperative of our shared whiteness: 'act as if the land were initially without owners'. For white Australia, this imperative is more primordial than the usual formulation of the call to patriotism: 'be prepared to sacrifice yourself for your country', since patriotic sacrifice presupposes that one already has a country to which one is devoted. The imperative of whiteness touches the depth of our ontology since it is from this that the white collective springs as the creator of the white Australian nation-state. White Australians perpetually enter the world in so far as we faithfully obey the imperative to act as if the land were initially without owners and it is through this imperative that we cover over the question, 'where do you come from?', posed to us by the defiant resistance of Indigenous sovereign being. White Australia is therefore unavoidably implicated in the perpetuation of the nation that must act 'as if ...' or what we call the 'hypothetical nation'. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Dedication Epigraph 1. Introduction: The Call for a Manifesto 2. The Need for a White Australian Philosophical Historiography 3. The ‘Hypothetical Nation’ as Being Without Sovereignty 4. A Genealogy of the West as the Ontological Project of the Gathering-We 5. Ontological Sovereignty and the Hope of a White Australian Philosophy of Origins 6. The World-Making Significance of Property Ownership in Western Modernity 7. Sovereign Being and the Enactment of Property Ownership 8. The Onto-Pathology of White Australian Subjectivity 9. Racist Epistemologies of a Collective Criminal Will 10. The Perpetual Foreigner-Within as an Epistemological Construction 11. The Migrant as White-Non-White and White-But-Not-White-Enough 12. Three Images of the Foreigner-Within: Subversive, Compliant, Submissive 13. The Imperative of the Indigenous - White Australian Encounter References Rear Cover