October 6, 2008
In an editorial in the latest issue of BorderlandsVijay Devadas & Jane Mummery say that they
are not suggesting that concepts such as flows and networks do not mark the condition of the present; indeed they do, but at the same time, there is also, against this current, other markers of the present: borders, differentiated zones and spaces, and immobility....The neoliberal condition, thus paradoxically, while championing the opening up of borders — political, economic, social and cultural — is simultaneously contingent upon the formation of borders....The production of borders in other words is becoming much more acute and much more entrenched.
They say that borders have become central to the regulation and management of the population: it allows the segmenting of the population into social, cultural economic and political trajectories or expressions that they are best suited to, to ensure that the best can be extracted and the dangers managed.
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These two references really belong in yesterdays post.
They provide two different perspectives on the origins of the crisis and the bail-out too.
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/imbeciles.htm
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/441.html