Being Numerous

I was pleased to watch her feel better, and was pleased to be alive to watch her feel better. My lover’s body was always warm, remarkably warm. He felt like energy, and once or twice in the weeks after I didn’t die, I pressed my face against his chest to appreciate heat and heartbeat.

“Transparency, coordination, automation—if these have democratic possibilities, they have authoritarian ones as well.”

Turning affective outrage into effective resistance is a greater challenge still

The ability of an image to produce outrage is one thing, to sustain it is another

the mere reproduction of the spectacle of black suffering does not challenge the system under which this suffering is normalized

we question whether certain images of death serve to humanize or dehumanize the dead

The media’s double standards about showing corpses is a clear illustration of the brutal necropolitics to which so many black, Muslim, indigenous, colonized and refugee lives are subjugated—that is, under the threat of, and in proximity to, death and disposal.

The risk of a personal-is-political discourse that focuses on individual choice, rather than on terrains of choice making

an interrogation of what we can and cannot use a rights discourse to achieve.

the history of anti-fascist, anti-racist activism is not one of presuming the good faith of state power