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“If we want to address the empire, we need to be fluent in its vernacular. But this expectation is asymmetrical. We are often admonished by critics who are illiterate, or purport to be illiterate in our language.”
— Mar 29, 2026 12:31PM
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Humanization, then, is not merely our psychic response to colonial dehumanization — it exposes the absence of material analysis in our societies. As a project, it is largely the mandate of a specific class: “man… was one of the values invented by the bourgeoisie.”
— Mar 29, 2026 01:20PM
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“We are not human, automatically, by virtue of being human — we are to be humanized by virtue of our proximity to innocence: whiteness, civility, wealth, compromise, collaboration, nonalignment, nonviolence, helplessness, futurelessness.”
— Mar 29, 2026 12:16PM
