ABSTRACT This article addresses the fundamental but often unrecognized work (political, legal, historical) that is accomplished by medieval/modern periodization. By medieval/modern periodization is meant the constitution of the period that we call ‘the Middle Ages' and its simultaneous distinction from the co-constituted ‘modern'. The article argues that the constitution of this Middle Ages is a space-clearing, exclusionary process - accomplished by a cutting that buttresses both the hegemony of the ‘modern' that has been so difficult to assail and the apparent undeniability of certain ‘early modern’ events as foundational to politics as it is understood to operate today. It also argues that this periodization fully inhabits the categories of the secular and sovereignty, as well as the intersection of these two, and that it is therefore implicated in the autoimmune process of the secular state.

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从分期到自身免疫世俗状态

摘要 本文讨论了由中世纪/现代分期完成的基本但通常未被承认的工作（政治、法律、历史）。中世纪/现代分期是指我们称之为“中世纪”的时期的构成及其与共同构成的“现代”的同时区别。这篇文章认为，这个中世纪的构成是一个空间清理、排他性的过程——通过一个切割来完成，它既支持了如此难以攻击的“现代”的霸权，又支持某些“早期现代”的明显不可否认性。正如今天所理解的那样，事件是政治的基础。它还认为，这种分期完全属于世俗和主权的范畴，以及这两者的交集，