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Disaster Capitalism: Stigmatization as a form of neoliberal governance
Extracted and reworked from the Afterword of Revolting Subjects In “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, Naomi Klein details the ways in which ‘the policy trinity’ of neoliberalism, ‘the elimination of the public sphere, total liberation for corporations and skeletal social spending’ has been enabled through the invention and/or exploitation of crises,…
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Postcolonial Girl: Remember Gamu Gate?
Postcolonial Girl: Mediated Intimacy and Migrant Audibility Imogen Tyler and Rosalind Gill In October 2010, Gamu Nhengu, a Zimbabwean teenager, was ejected from the popular British reality TV talent show, The X Factor, on which she was a contestant. There was a public backlash to what many perceived was an unjust eviction. Within days, however,…
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Social Abjection: Extract from The Introduction to Revolting Subjects
Revolting: Verb: The action of revolt; apostasy; rebellion, insurrection; Adjective: That [which] evokes revulsion; repulsive, disgusting. Noun: That which is revolting; revoltingness. (abridged from the Oxford English Dictionary, 2012) Introduction Revolting is a powerful word. Within an emotional register being revolted is an expression of disgust, ‘to react or rise with repugnance against something. To…
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The Wretched of the Earth: ‘However hard it is kicked or stoned it continues to gnaw at the roots of the tree like a pack of rats’ (Fanon).
The Wretched of the Earth ‘However hard it is kicked or stoned it continues to gnaw at the roots of the tree like a pack of rats’ (Fanon). In an extraordinary short essay titled ‘Abjection and Miserable Forms’ (Bataille [1934] 1993) Georges Bataille, writing in the shadow of Hitler’s rise to power, developed the concept…
Professor Imogen Tyler 