Colm in Wanderlust

L’Enfer (1994)

The Drowned Halls

📷 Brooklyn, NY

knitted textures from 'the encyclopedia of knitting,' lesley stanfield and melody griffith, pub. 2000.

Below, a photo: page 111 from Let This Radicalize You, chapter title: "Violence" in Social Movements. A sub-heading reads: They Will Call You Violent. The excerpt reads: If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because "violence" is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as "peaceful” are, in reality, quite violent. Even as people experience the violence of poverty, the torture of imprisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to "peace," they are really talking about order. And when they refer to "peaceful protest," they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice. End ID.]