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The process of organizing collective subjects for social change does indeed involve “movement” on many levels, and one of them undoubtedly entails forging forms of collective consciousness. This process is not merely cognitive and rational — though it is that, too; it also works on the affective investments people have in the identities they claim. … Read more

One of the ways to make use of existing identity forms is to highlight the gap between identities promoted by the dominant culture and the lived “experience” of social relations that is not summoned by these terms. This is the ‘excess’ that is often ‘experienced’ as an inchoate affect of not belonging, of not fitting … Read more

In establishing the game parks of Africa, European law turned indigenous human inhabitants of the ‘nature reserves’ into poachers, invaders in their own terrain, or into part of the wildlife. from Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies (via iandeleonarts)