°The gift of colonisation
[Recent television ad for right-wing newspaper, The Australian.]
In the chapter “Of Commandment”, Mbembe turns over some significant dispositions of colonial sovereignty. On one of those, he writes: 
°Failed states
The concept of ‘failed states’ is ubiquitous in political idiom and theory, extending well beyond its methodical appearances in global security vernaculars.
°*%#+!!!!
The legislation just passed tonight. I’m so angry I could spit. “Aborigines lose welfare appeal right” | “Indigenous plan ‘won’t protect children’” | More reports. |
°Experiri
Here are some excerpts from Melinda Cooper’s “Experimental Labour — Offshoring Clinical Trials to China”, in which she argues, among other things, that participation in clinical trials should be considered as a form of labour, turning around the question of how this has recently played out in the context of neo-liberalist developments which oscillate between the imperatives of labour fluidity and incarceration.
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