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wow

sodomy laws are used to target racialized groups and women not deemed hindu enough

oh!

:((((

i keep forgetting this is also a horror novel and get surprised when people die

god thats so fucking dismal

meme :(

we sweating

"the only difference between the liberals and the conservatives is that the liberals go to church at 5 am and the conservatives at 8 am"

THE TRAIN!!!!

“the women do not only pay the price of acts set down by men. they constitute the bargaining chip of this funerary economy.”

Intimacy has been replaced by what Jacques Lacan called “extimacy.” A different kind of human entangled with objects, technologies, and other living or animate things is therefore being constituted through and within digital technologies and new media forms. This is not at all the liberal individual who, not so long ago, we believed could be the subject of democracy.

i’ve never read the original huckleberry finn so idk if what just happened is in the official canon but WHAT

“for death is precisely that from and over which i have power. but it is also the space where freedom and negation operate.”

jim is so dear to me

starting necropolitics!!!!

ours is rather a tone of paranoid dispositions, hysterical violence, and procedures to annihilate all those that democracy will have constituted as enemies of the state

"At the heart of the technotheologically connoted political violence of our times is thus the idea that a basically liberating power exists that will explode almost out of nothingness once the end is truly accomplished."

“The great fear of democracies is that this violence, latent on the interior and exteriorized in the colonies and other third places, suddenly resurfaces, and then threatens the idea that the political order was created out of itself (instituted all at once and once and for all) and had more or less managed to pass itself off as common sense.”

Mbembe, Achille