I argue that a distinction between three autoimmunities is implied in Derrida’s Rogues . These are the autoimmunities of democracy as a regime of power, of democracy to come and of sovereignty. I extrapolate the relations between three different autoimmunities using the figure of the internal enemy in order to argue for an agonistic conception of democracy.

internal enemy | stasis | agonistic democracy | sovereignty | the unconditional | biological metaphors