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- instead of using "race" it talks in terms of "security," "cultures of poverty," "criminality," "values." #trayvon 1 year ago
- hoping that #trayvon's death enough to wake broader public up that there is a war here on black and dark skinned bodies. 1 year ago
- We also need to think about how certain persons take themselves to be the embodiment & extension of "the law" and "social order." @esglaude 1 year ago
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Category Archives: Surin
Freedom Not Yet: Ch. 3 & Occupy Wall St.
Why do they occupy Wall St. instead of targeting D.C.? The third chapter in Surin’s book can be read as providing an answer to this “postpolitical” situation by turning to post-WWII economic history. The shift from the homo politicus to … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Surin
Tagged 3rd world, financialization, global south, hegemony, ken surin, Occupy Wall Street, U.S.
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Freedom Not Yet: Ch. 2 (an interaction)
This second chapter can be seen as a response to the criticisms, or alternative reading, I offered regarding the first chapter. To my claim that the “revolutionary subject” cannot be configured at the site of “the human” but in the … Continue reading
Posted in class, fanon, race, Surin
Tagged class, fanon, liberation, Marxism, Race, Revolution, subject, Surin
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Freedom Not Yet: Ch. 1 (an interaction)
In the place of the Citizen Subject posited as an ideal by the liberal democratic political systems of the past two centuries by and large now stands a new kind of ideal subject, to wit, a consumer subject cajoled and … Continue reading
Posted in class, politics, race, Surin
Tagged Freedom Not Yet, Race, Revolution, Slave, Surin
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