The opposition between individual racism and institutional racism has from the beginning stood on pretty shaky theoretical grounds. Aren’t individualist expressions of racism, in both their “spontaneous” and continuous forms, always underwritten by statist practices? And haven’t state institutions’ rationalized borders and operations been partly enforced by substrata of popular exclusions and (threats of) routine violence? (more…)
Keith Flett, SWPer and advocate for rights for the bearded, in a letter to the Guardian (via):
All those involved in the Baby Peter case were inadequate and unpleasant individuals. None of that, however, really explains why they lived lives of such chaos. The White Hart Lane area, where they lived, has among the highest unemployment rates in London and high rates of poverty and teenage pregnancy. With labour comes dignity and one wonders, if all three had had regular employment, whether the outcome would have been quite the same.
From what I can gather, concepts of decay — as developed, in blogland, by Reza Negarestani, Planomenology, and Splintering Bone Ashes, among others — belong to what could be called the subtractive branch of ontological-political strategies: becoming-imperceptible, exodus, refusal of work. (more…)
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