Social Work & Anthropology PhD || Defensa del Territorio 🐆🌲 || Another World Is Possible 🌎 || @geo3550 President ✊ || @HPRScholars || Opinions = my own
Aug 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Hey, I know Twitter is horrible at communicating tone, but I genuinely feel like you're not really engaging me because I've already said that I do not disagree with you that #LandBack would save the planet nor have I argued that you are centering Settlers.
I don't really know where the disconnect is happening.
My critique is two-fold: a) Survivability is NOT the Settler's highest interest and the assumption that survival "benefits them" assumes a specific ethical and political frame that is not historically adopted by Settlers.
Aug 3, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I considered whether to add this because I know it's unpopular and I understand the intent of the Tweet and its follow-ups, but I think this framing is both untrue and politically dangerous and so I wanted to offer this good faith engagement: 🧵
First, it is untrue, I believe, to the extent that virtually every theorization of #LandBack includes the dismantling of capitalist economies, the ending of settler colonial forms of government, and the attendant ending of other forms of violence like patriarchy or antiblackness.
Aug 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I am not intimately familiar with it, but skimming a primer on Anzieu just now, it reminds me of some of Felix Guattari's critiques and so I'm sympathetic to them. I disagree with Anzieu on interpretation and systemic silence, however--my patients certainly benefited from it.
However, I think the critique of Lacan's "the unconscious is structured like a language," is not necessarily unfounded. I think, somewhat, Lacan's work could be improved with engagement with Peirce's semiotics and an more expansive theory of the sign and signifier.
