Michael Hardt wrote recently, "First of all, we are indebted, that is, people have to go into debt in order to satisfy basic life needs such as housing, education and health, and many of them have no prospect of ever being free of debt. Second, we are mediatized, in the sense that we are caught up in a variety of media networks that render us passive users and receivers of information and fabricated knowledge. Third, we are securitized, in other words, subject to security regimes that, in a general atmosphere of fear, combine vast surveillance apparatuses with implicit and explicit threats of coercion. Finally, we are represented, and thus made passive in governance systems that claim to act in our interests and effectively prohibit our direct collective political action. One certainly could (and should) add other subjectivities to this list, such as the precarious and the exploited." - Continue reading. #S17 #Palestine
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:55:26 +0000