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9780823271108 English 0823271102 In this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraqand Afghanistan, or to China's occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. She also takes up the shifting dynamics of peoples' resistance to acts of militarism and surveillance as well as social media and its capacity to inform and mobilize citizens around the world. At once an engaging treatise and a creative gesture, Lovecidal probes the physical and psychic conditions of the world and shows us a society that is profoundly heartsick. Taking up with those who march both as and for the oppressed--who walk with the disappeared to help carry them forward--Trinh T. Minh-ha engages thespiritual and affective dimensions of a civilization organized around the rubrics of nonstop governmental subjugation, economic austerity, and highly technologized military conflict. In doing so, she clears a path for us to walk upon. Along with our every step, the world of the disappeared lives on., Lovecidal is a transformative work that cuts across genres, times and places, appealing intimately to our sense of justice and freedom with incisive provocations and evocations. It leads the reader through small and large wounds of our time as glimpsed through the claims to "victory" of twenty-first-century colonial wars, and focuses on a wide range of sustained, underground forms of resistance capable of changing today's landscape of activism. Featuring the role of the New Protester among netizens of the world, it discusses the voices of the online poster, including, for example, the deeds of the "geek who leaks" in the U.S; the inventive blogger and the human rights lawyer in China; or the nonconformist singing nun and Lhakar vigils participant in Tibet. Capaciously conceived, Lovecidal offers wide-ranging vistas of war making, citing compelling examples of US involvements in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Lebanon, as well as of China's imperial quest of unity and harmony. In its focus on the self-destructive forces of systemic violence and state-sanctioned security, what emerges are multi-layered forms of erasure and disfranchisement and "an indefinite state of being-in-expulsion: exiled, expatriated, segregated, deported, displaced, discarded, repudiated, estranged, disappeared, unsettled, and unsettling." At once an engaging treatise and a creative gesture, Lovecidal remains attentive to the affective and spiritual dimension of events while revealing modern society to be a profoundly heartsick society. At the core of the book's journey is a walk during twilight--a moment of the day linked with the postcolonial phase, the aftermath of victory and of revolution, when events of the world come to the walker in an unplanned, unexpected, albeit tightly interrelated way. As an activity for peace, "walking" is here also a mode of active, expansive receptivity. With every step forward, the world of the disappeared lives on.
9780823271108 English 0823271102 In this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraqand Afghanistan, or to China's occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. She also takes up the shifting dynamics of peoples' resistance to acts of militarism and surveillance as well as social media and its capacity to inform and mobilize citizens around the world. At once an engaging treatise and a creative gesture, Lovecidal probes the physical and psychic conditions of the world and shows us a society that is profoundly heartsick. Taking up with those who march both as and for the oppressed--who walk with the disappeared to help carry them forward--Trinh T. Minh-ha engages thespiritual and affective dimensions of a civilization organized around the rubrics of nonstop governmental subjugation, economic austerity, and highly technologized military conflict. In doing so, she clears a path for us to walk upon. Along with our every step, the world of the disappeared lives on., Lovecidal is a transformative work that cuts across genres, times and places, appealing intimately to our sense of justice and freedom with incisive provocations and evocations. It leads the reader through small and large wounds of our time as glimpsed through the claims to "victory" of twenty-first-century colonial wars, and focuses on a wide range of sustained, underground forms of resistance capable of changing today's landscape of activism. Featuring the role of the New Protester among netizens of the world, it discusses the voices of the online poster, including, for example, the deeds of the "geek who leaks" in the U.S; the inventive blogger and the human rights lawyer in China; or the nonconformist singing nun and Lhakar vigils participant in Tibet. Capaciously conceived, Lovecidal offers wide-ranging vistas of war making, citing compelling examples of US involvements in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Lebanon, as well as of China's imperial quest of unity and harmony. In its focus on the self-destructive forces of systemic violence and state-sanctioned security, what emerges are multi-layered forms of erasure and disfranchisement and "an indefinite state of being-in-expulsion: exiled, expatriated, segregated, deported, displaced, discarded, repudiated, estranged, disappeared, unsettled, and unsettling." At once an engaging treatise and a creative gesture, Lovecidal remains attentive to the affective and spiritual dimension of events while revealing modern society to be a profoundly heartsick society. At the core of the book's journey is a walk during twilight--a moment of the day linked with the postcolonial phase, the aftermath of victory and of revolution, when events of the world come to the walker in an unplanned, unexpected, albeit tightly interrelated way. As an activity for peace, "walking" is here also a mode of active, expansive receptivity. With every step forward, the world of the disappeared lives on.