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Title: You Are Triggering me! The Neo-Liberal Rhetoric of Harm, Danger and Trauma
Post by: dalebert on July 07, 2014, 09:55:10 PM
Post by: dalebert on July 07, 2014, 09:55:10 PM
http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/you-are-triggering-me-the-neo-liberal-rhetoric-of-harm-danger-and-trauma/
QuoteIs this the way the world ends? When groups that share common cause, utopian dreams and a joined mission find fault with each other instead of tearing down the banks and the bankers, the politicians and the parliaments, the university presidents and the CEOs? Instead of realizing, as Moten and Hearny put it in The Undercommons, that "we owe each other everything," we enact punishments on one another and stalk away from projects that should unite us, and huddle in small groups feeling erotically bonded through our self-righteousness.