Cristina Rivera Garza

The Restless Dead

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  • Aída Naxhiellyhas quoted4 years ago
    Disappropriation, in short, describes the kind of writing that, in an era marked by the spectacular violence of the open war on populations dubbed the War on Drugs, would open itself up to include the voices of others in evident and creative ways.
  • Aída Naxhiellyhas quoted4 years ago
    Disappropriation has involved, and still involves, the critical renunciation of what capital-L Literature does and has always done: appropriating others’ voices and experiences for its own benefit and its own hierarchies of influence.
  • Aída Naxhiellyhas quoted4 years ago
    greater harmony with nomadic conceptions of space as a de-territorialized or segmented entity, necropolitical war machines recognize that “military operations and the exercise of the right to kill are no longer the sole monopoly of states and the ‘regular army’ is no longer the unique modality of carrying out these functions.”
  • Aída Naxhiellyhas quoted4 years ago
    the ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who may die. . . . To exercise sovereignty is to exercise control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power.”
  • Aída Naxhiellyhas quoted4 years ago
    Which aesthetic and ethical dialogues does the act of writing hurl us into when we are quite literally surrounded by corpses?
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