Narcissistic Authoritarian Statism, Part 2: Slow/Fast Violence

See Jonas Staal, Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (MIT Press, 2019).

“Syrian Migrant Killed as Thousands Try to Cross into Greece, Turkish Authorities Say,” France 24, March 2, 2020 →; and “Syrian Boy Drowns off Greece as Migrants Risk Dash through Turkey’s Open Border,” Australian Broadcasting Company, March 1, 2020 →.

Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard University Press, 2011), 2.

For an analysis of the effects of the privatization of healthcare in the EU, and the marketization of the industry, I suggest one of many excellent articles by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobbying groups across the EU. See Rachel Tansey, “The Creeping Privatisation of Healthcare,” CEO, June 2, 2017 →.

See “Brazil Accuses US Missionary of Putting Isolated Tribe’s Lives at Risk,” The Guardian, January 23, 2019 →; and “Amazon Gold Miners Invade Indigenous Village in Brazil after its Leader Is Killed,” The Guardian, July 28, 2019 →. In 2018, an American evangelist preacher named John Chau visited North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, home to the uncontacted indigenous Sentinelese tribe, endangering their lives by exposing them to disease and infection. “My name is John, and I love you and Jesus loves you,” he was reported to have said to them. Chau was not seen again and is presumed to been killed by the tribesmen. See Michael Safi, “American Killed by Isolated Tribe on North Sentinel Island in Andamans,” The Guardian, November 22, 2018 →.

Dom Phillips, “Bolsonaro Declares ‘The Amazon Is Ours’ and Calls Deforestation Data ‘Lies,’” The Guardian, July 19, 2019 →.

From the Lion’s Head website →.

Damian Carrington, “UK Firm’s Failed Biofuel Dream Wrecks Lives of Tanzania Villagers,” The Guardian, October 30, 2011 →.

From Donald Trump’s tweets, October 14, 2019, and a meeting with the Italian President, streamed live on PBS NewsHour, October 16, 2019.

Femke Herregraven, Foul Footprints – No1: Engineering the Island, 2018, commissioned for “Extra States: Nations in Liquidation,” a group exhibition at Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, September 2018.

Katie McQue, Mark Townsend, and Katie Armour, “Windrush Scandal Continues as Chagos Islanders Are Pressed to ‘Go Back,’” The Guardian, July 28, 2019 →.

Last year Roupakias grotesquely claimed that “it was just a simple homicide, he literally stepped on my knife, the whole thing is blown out of proportion.” See “Roupakias Describes Fyssas’ Murder as a ‘Simple Homicide,’” Ekathimerini, July 18, 2019 →.

Lynne Layton, Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes (Routledge, 2020), 180.

Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” (1984), in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press, 2007), 110–14.

For an excellent analysis on neutrality as complicity, I refer you to a 2017 text by Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman on Trump, the border wall, and architecture →.