Lovecidal : walking with the disappeared

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Lovecidal : walking with the disappeared

Trinh T. Minh-ha

Fordham University Press, 2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 Iraq and 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 the spiritual 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.

Table of Contents

Somewhere in the Process Blind Energy How to Write an Ending? Liquid Denouement Enhanced Security: "He Won" Exiting: "The Dark Night Policy" Specter of Vietnam The Smell of Victory Screen Replay Twilight Walk The Matter of War The Oil Stain Deep in the Red "When Will They Be Ready, Really?" Small Cell Large Cell [Living Dead or Suicided? Please Choose] Between Victor and Victor The Strength to Lift A Hair Twin Victories A Legacy of Inflation She, The Wayfarer Walking with The Disappeared Circle of Love: Pink, White and Black [The Red-Blue Divide] Thriving on a D-Stroll A Hole in the Heart Virtual Monument Censored Miles of Strangeness Light Weight The Mole's Empire: Power of The Unseen The Other Victory [Terrorist Sightings] In-humanity: Down Where It Hurts Feeling The Way Out The Crawl to Peace When The General Cries Washington's Visual Scar The World is Watching Lotus in Tears "I am the Reality" In the Night of Becoming Small Acts on The Roof of The World Walk for Rain The New Rebels The Blank Page "Sensitive Cases" Displaced, Dispossessed, Disappeared The Great Uprooting Sea of Immigrants Rising From Mud and Muck [The Odor of Fear ] Interval of Resistance The Empty Chair The Image Under Erasure Lotus Bomb(ed) The Screensaver's Light The Ultimate Protest True Person of No Rank [Snake in The Can] A Bridge, A Boat, A Spark of Plenty This Sky, Which Is Not Blue Acknowledgment Notes Index

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