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“If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide, and so we are found.”

Year of the desert. Locking in

“Therein lies the ambiguity of contemporary Japan: it is a pacifist nation sheltering under the American nuclear umbrella. One hopes that the accident at the Fukushima facility will allow the Japanese to reconnect with the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to recognize the danger of nuclear power, and to put an end to the illusion of the efficacy of deterrent that is advocated by nuclear powers.”

“Radioactivity may be invisible, but the atomic age does have color: the ‘color of calamity,’ the ‘ash-colored’ incinerated bodies and the crinkly pink flesh around the eyes of the victims, the black spots on the corpses of the mother and her child. The color is also green, like military costumes.”

fuckkk france fr lol

“These after lives of unevenly distributed, corporation-led harm ravage the urban remnants of high-carbon industrial practices, extractive economies, and settler colonialism. The dust storms bring a sense of environmental uncanniness; modernity is materially readdressed by the unintentional consequences of its own grand designs.”

“Colonialism is in many different ways a politics of “desertification.” It is a mode of power that aims at eliminating diversity and difference—whether that difference be cultural, ethnic, or ecological—and at homogenizing populations and environments in order to control, exploit, and profit from them.”

Last Ali novel (til May) & feeling sad about it 😢

Fuck all empires, all the time. Evil evil EVIL.