°Objects of aid
A small excerpt from Federico Rahola’s “On the Victim’s Side: A Note on Humanitarianism in the Time of Wars of Interference”. The rest, as a pdf.
We rediscover here, after a long and winding route, the political dimension of the border to which victims are led back, the humanity in excess which is produced continuously by a politics of security and present day wars. A border which appears to be tangible in the abstract opposition between a clearly located subject and undifferentiated masses, between those who watch ‘the show of suffering’ from a distance and can decide to intervene, and those who experience the sense of the place simply as a condemnation, with no alternatives, no elsewhere. A border which separates those who are still subjects of rights from those who, in the best of cases, are objects of aid.
