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The Independent Group for Change UK - ML Profile picture
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May 27, 2016 • 12 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Very good Edward Said lecture by @NaomiAKlein on environment, capitalist crises and human dispensibility: lrb.co.uk/v38/n11/naomi-…
the essay relates to politics as such; which is always a question of defining the boundaries of the 'human'; limits of ethics; who 'matters'

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Whilst racialisation (i.e. the process by which groups and individuals come to be seen as part of a distinct 'race') involves cultural and biological assumptions, we spend far more time explaining the process of 'cultural' rather than 'biological'/'hereditary' racialisation. 1/
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May 26, 2016
Twitter is actually - far more than other social media platforms - a perfect example of the autonomy - and determination - of the signifier.
-scatter to the four winds the blank checks of a mad charge of the cavalry. Were there no loose tweets, there would be no purloined letters.
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