♦ One is complicit just by living here and may benefit personally in some ways by the current configuration of things, but this does not mean that the actions undertaken by the state are to our greatest benefit. It is in the interest of the country, the continent, the hemisphere and the world to address the situation described above.
♦ Chris Sepulvado got a stay of execution Thursday and it was cut down on Friday; there are new filings and there will be a new date in thirty to forty-five days.
Goldberg:
♦ “Racial neoliberalism, she argues, drawing compellingly on Sadean analysis, has sewn together in the name of civilization a ‘modern state machinery . . . predicated on punishment and war’, a divinely ordained if secularized technology of violence, and an erotics of expressed responsibility for and moral superiority over all others by imposing upon them a homogeneously defined conception of right that is at once a will to power.”
♦ “That racial constitution has ordered modernity’s self-making in various if denied ways has made it repeatedly possible—both in the sense of producing subjects and rationalizing their ill treatment—to subject some to viciousness at the hands of and for the sake of elevating others. But the Sadean point is that viciousness is not just materially instrumental; it is fuelled also by the pure pleasure, the erotics, inherent in expressing—in being able to express—subordinating power.”
Erotics: Sexual subjugation of María and Cecilia. Hypothesis: it is this, not “love.” This is an important aspect of the patriarchal connection in these texts. Paternity and patrimony and status as heir — or erasure.
♦ Wade’s “neoliberal multiculturalism” — how much of current discussion in Peru, for example, is based on this: we will let you into the discothèque and the mall, but we will not enact [land reform] or address environmental racism?
The Cottrol book has arrived.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 