An examination of the figure of the slave and the figure of migrant make visible important historical interconnections that sustain past and present elaborations of the human and ‘the international’. These interconnections have always been racialised and they have structurally constituted the making of an interdependent world community. A series of instrumentalised discourses, at times turned into rationalities that govern policies towards migrants, particularly in a post 9/11 context, increasingly normalises the idea that there are people that can be justifiably expelled from the civic/civil, and increasingly human sphere. The slave was forcefully removed, both physically from attachment to kin and land, and morally from the history of humankind. The migrant is pushed out of the bounds of the livable as well as the moral category of rights-bearer. The commonalities that configure both phenomena are rooted in an extractive supply economy and a hierarchised ordering of humans. The article uses the history of Frederick Douglas to show that the absence of ‘care’ as methodology of relationality limits the valence of interdependence as a marker of a globalised world. In doing so, it challenges the unexamined assumptions of new/posthumanism that advocates radical interdependence without interrogating the modalities of ‘humanity’ among different categories of humans.

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奴隶、移民和国际的本体论拓扑

对奴隶形象和移民形象的考察使重要的历史联系变得清晰可见，这些联系支撑着过去和现在对人类和“国际”的阐述。这些相互联系一直是种族化的，它们在结构上构成了一个相互依存的世界社区。一系列工具化的话语有时变成了管理移民政策的理性，尤其是在 9/11 之后的背景下，越来越多的人认为有些人可以被合理地驱逐出公民/公民和越来越多的人类领域。奴隶被强行驱逐，无论是肉体上对亲属和土地的依恋，还是在人类历史上的道德上。移民被排除在宜居和权利承担者的道德范畴之外。构成这两种现象的共同点植根于采掘式供应经济和人类的等级秩序。本文使用弗雷德里克·道格拉斯 (Frederick Douglas) 的历史表明，作为关系方法论的“关怀”的缺失限制了相互依存作为全球化世界标志的效价。在这样做的过程中，它挑战了新/后人类主义的未经审查的假设，这些假设主张激进的相互依存，而不询问不同类别人类之间的“人性”模式。