LAUSR

ABSTRACT The generous contributors to this symposium all reiterate a certain resignation to the suffocating ubiquity of today's nationalism as surveyed in the Clamour of Nationalism. But also implicit in their searching commentary is a wider call to continue to reckon with the contradictions that live amidst the nationalist closure and its constitutive racisms. This rejoinder tries accordingly to cleave open those elements of popular political formation that might remain unmoved by the overtures of nation. My attempt at wilfully optimistic critique also maps some potentially generative openings presented by the right's overdetermined capitulation to ‘disaster nationalism’. Finally, much of the symposium rightly cautions against an excessive extolling of multiculture's political possibilities. The rejoinder concludes herein with a duly caveated account of the everyday multiculture that might furnish us with the resources to dream against and beyond nationalism’s ability to monopolize the terrain of political community.