What do Covid-19, the killing of George Floyd and the toppling of statues express about the human condition at this time of disease-anxiety and global economic recession?
regimes, in the United States and South Africa, respectively) is blame: homosexuals visited it on themselves in bath houses and loose women were to be taught lessons through it in their villages.
Black Lives Matter has become a touchstone for those people refusing to be chased out. The toppling of a statue that stood for almost 150 years brazenly unnoticed is both a sign of imperial forgetting and the shaming of its dispossessed. But, it’s not enough. Imperial impulses have not retreated under the cloak of Covid-19, but rather are felt by many citizens globally to have been emboldened, if not permitted, by the very state enjoined to protect and sustain a population.
Resistance formations, having sparked the visible identification of symbols associated with historic forms of oppression, suggest a heightened and universal preoccupation with violence and oppression: disease of other kinds.
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