Anxious underachiever rationalising perpetual failure and sloth through Marxism and Psychoanalysis.
Sep 21, 2020 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
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/
For instance, it is generally accepted by a wide variety of people on the left that race is a social construct insofar as it involves lumping together and 'pathologising' a variety of different cultural practices and behaviours. 2/
Jun 19, 2016 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
It's worth considering why anti-migration arguments have such potency when couched in supposedly pragmatic terms of 'viability'; 'space' etc
It's tempting to dismiss this as entirely the product of right-wing 'scapegoating', but it runs deeper than that.
May 27, 2016 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
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'
May 26, 2016 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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.
