Forwarded from Tad Hargrave
Colonization isn’t so much the extraction of wealth from a subdued land to the conqueror’s as it is the shrinking of experience to fit the perspectival frames of the conqueror; it is the imposition of a single way of knowing, a single regime of noticing, a single apparatus for meaning-making – so that what is truly lost isn’t gold and corn and men as such, but ways of making sense of the vibrancy around us.
What is truly lost – in a world increasingly convinced that the only way of measuring true wealth is with digits, scarred landscapes, downed trees and rising skylines – is the freedom to think otherwise. It is also not merely the case that colonial practices took away our culture as it is the case that they imposed a static authenticity, forcing us to conform to an image of what a true indigenous person looks or sounds like – and, in effect, denying us the right to stray from our own algorithms.
Decolonizing ourselves must therefore proceed not by trying to return to a pure image of what it means to be indigenous (an image that may no longer be true), or by trying to erase the lasting marks on our bodies that have been made by colonial incursions and new affinities, but by straying freely and losing our way generously – making kin with the places that hold us, and abiding with the troubling flow of worlding practices that bind us to those who have violated us.
Bayo Akomolafe
What is truly lost – in a world increasingly convinced that the only way of measuring true wealth is with digits, scarred landscapes, downed trees and rising skylines – is the freedom to think otherwise. It is also not merely the case that colonial practices took away our culture as it is the case that they imposed a static authenticity, forcing us to conform to an image of what a true indigenous person looks or sounds like – and, in effect, denying us the right to stray from our own algorithms.
Decolonizing ourselves must therefore proceed not by trying to return to a pure image of what it means to be indigenous (an image that may no longer be true), or by trying to erase the lasting marks on our bodies that have been made by colonial incursions and new affinities, but by straying freely and losing our way generously – making kin with the places that hold us, and abiding with the troubling flow of worlding practices that bind us to those who have violated us.
Bayo Akomolafe
Forwarded from Henna Maria
Here's my newest video, a plea for common sense and community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KIYtfDlXvE
YouTube
The Curse of "Asymptomatic Transmission"
I explore the core justification for the rising medical and technocratic tyranny our world is suffering with right now: the belief that healthy people are infecting others, and thus should be controlled at all times.
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Forwarded from David Avocado Wolfe
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Montreal Freedom March Today Sept 12, 2020 (11 seconds)
Forwarded from Jan Blake
Coronavirus: Who are the Covid marshals and what powers will they have? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-54105672
BBC News
Coronavirus: Who are the Covid marshals and do they have any powers?
Covid marshals have been suggested as a way of ensuring people follow social distancing rules.
I have not dove into this one yet... but James Corbett does some amazing reporting and I have got this on my list for today or tomorrow to listen to
Forwarded from james corbertt [unofficial]
Media is too big
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Episode 297 – China and the New World Order : The Corbett Report
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-297-china-and-the-new-world-order/
https://telegra.ph/Episode-297--China-and-the-New-World-Order-09-14-3
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-297-china-and-the-new-world-order/
https://telegra.ph/Episode-297--China-and-the-New-World-Order-09-14-3