civvy and barb
studies on the (real? fake? complicated?) dichotomy between civilization and barbarism
civvy and barb
It is a challenge to the rest of the world “to debase themselves in their turn, to deny their own values … to sacrifice everything by which a human being or a culture has some value in its own eyes.”
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
I think it’s also important to admit, to attest to, and to [bear] witness to the violence of the archive of slavery, which is about erasure. There are tick marks instead of names; it’s all about the slave’s relationship to the accumulation of wealth for another. The archive doesn’t tell us the story of someone’s life.
Bettina Judd • On
According to Marina Gržinić, necropolitics precisely defines the forms taken by neo-liberal global capitalist cuts in financial support for public health, social and education structures. To her, these extreme cuts present intensive neo-liberal procedures of ‘rationalization’ and ‘civilization’.[9]
Necropolitics
necropolitics and civ/barb
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