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is formlessness, a form without a form, infigurable, the ever yet to come.

According to Lefort, the specific 'form' of democracy is that it never becomes an accomplished and fulfilled form as such. In a certain sense, the only 'form' of democracy is formlessness, a form without form. In a democracy, the place of power becomes literally 'infigurable' as lefort says. Democracy stands for formlessness or the relation to the void' ((Devish 2011: 999)

is not so much consumption, but closer to incorporation insofar as it is the action in which we send a food across the frontier between the world and the self, between 'outside' and 'inside' our body.

Fischler, therefore, writes not of eating or consumption but of 'incorporation', or 'the action in which we send a food across the frontier between the world and the self, between 'outside' and 'inside' our body' (1988: 279).

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