okay so in The Poppy War, the dark-skinned island people are just inherently more powerful because of a primal ancestral rage? *pencils in “NOT WOKE” on my notepad*
im not picky with metaphors being airtight but this is a narrative about imperial violence. wont act like im as well versed in the postcolonial studies of Asia specifically, but look past the fantasy kayfabe for a sec and the foundations of race/ ethnicity/ nationality are worth interrogating. this isnt part of some rf kuang hatetrain i just expected the nuance to be more integrated into the storyline
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i am always suspicious of anyone that is keen to stand apart from all but a very slim minority of their own demographic defined only by themselves. not like other girls, not one of those queers, not your average xyz etc. allowing your identity to be defined in opposition to your compatriots is an act of collaboration with the oppressor, which is why the system is so keen to platform these individuals.
often these people feel the need to apologise for being the demographic they are or position themselves as one of the few and rare “good ones” - the children of migrants who espouse anti-migration rhetoric; those raised in poverty who now wish to cut back social welfare; disabled people who look down on those that accept help. these viewpoints are not radical, they are just another expression of conservatism. if they are allowed to hold positions of power within the community, they will restrict access to the very systems and tools that aided them like a person cannibalising their own body, beginning with whomsoever is the easiest target.
you are not immune from this line of thought. have you ever thought that someone was making your community look bad purely with their aesthetic or personal interests? or that you were a better person because of your less conventional choices? have you ever avoided something purely for fear of being “one of those people”? have you ever given that group a name they did not choose for themselves? have you ever thought someone was advocating for your shared community too often or loudly? that’s the seed of hypocrisy inside you. that’s the part of you that would throw the rest of your community under the bus to help yourself.
"when the moon waxes red" trinh minh-ha (still in her walls) pt 2
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"there is no arcane place for return"
hm. wonder
to go toward things as though always for the first time.. does not provoke conflict, rejection, or acceptance
here's where i go on my religion/science spiel because wonder is often cited as the heart of both. and often cited as the heart of one, by an acolyte of it, while they scorn the other as all nonsense or all empire
hehe "manipulativeness has to be discreet -- not easily perceptible to the 'real audience'" she's not wrong!
woagh 🤯🤯🤯
this is one of my favourite things in art it's so good it feels like being touched like, somewhere under the ribs. a self-reference, meta, a gap and an openness, breaking the fourth wall, touching that boundary, the dis/continuity between content and form and audience and world...
"i want my fingers on the holes where language lets out" ( - me once)
this 'risking being no-thing' is interesting
"meaning remains fascinated by what escapes and exceeds it" 🤍🤍🤍
another beautiful clarification of a lot of people's confusions/beef with postmodernity ("everything is an illusion/mere construct"). relative - relational - grounded in place and perspective
again with slippery words. emptying out, but not ex-nihilo nothingness and not a transparent objectivity,,
this is reminding me of a certain view of god. in which god is the unbiased limitless horizon, omnipotent except for the little area of subjective human interiority. a hole which he is willing to leave empty to give the illusion that he needs us. like i have heard this very language
“heterosexual men can’t be oppressed” -> trans men
“cis-het men can’t be oppressed” -> intersex men
“perisex men can’t be oppressed” -> disabled men
“able-bodied men can’t be oppressed” -> neurodivergent men
“cis-het perisex white able-bodied neurotypical men can’t be oppressed” -> buddy let me tell you about wealth and class and homelessness and immigrants and minority languages and cultures and being a child and being an elderly person and and and
we can keep doing this all day but the reality of the world is that very few people don’t face any kind of oppression at all and everyone exists in a complicated, intersecting web where they have privileges over some people in some contexts and some others are have privilege over them in other contexts. no one individual is incapable of enacting oppression and if you think that about yourself you need to go away and interrogate that belief.
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I swear every time another young desi person does the whole india-pakistan debate there’s an old british colonialist fucking jumping for joy in his grave
The real dividing line exposed in this debate is not between “economic” and “cultural” explanations, nor between “class” and “race.” It is between two political projects. One seeks a socialism that can be achieved within the existing imperial order, by managing capitalism’s excesses and redistributing its proceeds among citizens of the core. The other recognizes that capitalism is inseparable from empire, and that socialism worthy of the name requires a rupture with the colonial property relations, state structures, and global hierarchies that sustain accumulation.
Prince Kapone at Weaponized Information. How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler Order
This essay is a polemical intervention into a recent Jacobin interview with NYU sociologist Vivek Chibber, published as a transcript of an episode of Confronting Capitalism
