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“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Intimacy has been replaced by what Jacques Lacan called “extimacy.”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.

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

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

“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

our luxury depends on the desecration of undesirables that we cannot see

"The advent of the plastic human and its corollary, the digital subject, goes flush against a number of convictions that until recently were held to be immutable truths."

introduction! gestures of care, the history of Being. particularly relevant considering recent events.