Frontiers, contracts and race
Three texts - as is obvious, written at the same time (August-September 2007), and which unwrap as an onion might: “Notes on the Frontiers and Borders of the Postcolony” (in the new Sarai Reader: Frontiers as a pdf, though there’s also a hardcopy of the edition); “The Failure of Political Theology” (a review of Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony and Forrest Hylton’s, Evil Hour in Colombia) at metamute; and “The Materialisation of Race in Multiculture”, in darkmatter’s new edition, Race/Matter. The last of these is the most pithy, but they neverthless form something of a trilogy, written as they were under the shock of the Intervention.
[Pocket’s remix of Kristin Hersh’s Slippershell, just because I’m enjoying that combination of squishynote earcandy and guitar/voice earbleed right now. It’s a compelling mix. Northsea’s remix is kind of ok, but doesn’t push it, really. And the flakeout remix is, well, a soporific.]
hey s0metim3s,
This is an exceptional piece - and speaks directly to some of the problems i have been thinking about. thank you On a note that is perhaps not unrelated, I’ve finally getting to the rubbish i wanted you to look at. i’m working slowly as i’m forced work on other stuff most of the time, but hopefully the now that i have started, it will speed up. so by way of getting a conversation started, and to keep it more informal, i posted something short, statement like, thoughts on my blog. if you could look at them and tell me what you think, that would be cool.
dionysusstoned [March 7, 2008 @ 9:23 pm]
eish, sorry…here is the link to the post
http://dionysusstoned.red.m2014.net/?p=35
dionysusstoned [March 7, 2008 @ 9:25 pm]
For sure I’ll take a look - give me a couple of days though.I did, and it looks more than fine. Looking forward to more.
s0metim3s [March 8, 2008 @ 7:38 pm]