Good morning, fellow inmates, I'm finally reading "Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination" by Ghassan Hage. As with any work of his, I will no doubt be screen-shotting and underlining furiously.
"...citizens of warring societies split themselves into two, into contingent citizens and essential citizens." Whew. I have never in my life felt like an essential citizen.
See also: endless royal commissions, and the performance of inquiry without ever putting into practice the suggested results!
"...typifies them as *late* colonial settler societies. It is the viciousness and cruelty that characterise the way they dispense their violence towards the other. It is a kind of violence specific to those who experience a sense of decline while retaining the power to hurt."
"Even though they are still vastly superior in power to the racialised/colonised other, the combination of actual power with a sense of decline produces a lethally vindictive and cruel colonial culture."
"In reality, what we have is a global, apartheid-like, uneven and separate experience of globalisation that is ‘intersectionally’ structured by race as well as class and, particularly in the case of the transnational circulation of domestic labour, gender."
"...there was a growing awareness that rather than necessarily being an opportunity for social transformation, a state of permanent crisis seemed to have become the very way in which capitalist economies and societies ensured their reproduction."
"The hopeful twentieth-century Marxist critique of crisis gave way to a depressed and depressing critique, which in fact reproduced a sentiment of a general paralysis of the radical imagination and the will for social change."
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