Everyone should read Snediker's article here. Its a doozy.
In light of contemporary work in black feminism, a critical consideration of police violence shows us that the ostensibly natural right to self-preservation is, in fact, not afforded to certain…
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"For self-preservation is, on the one hand, not only preserving
one’s self, but preserving the self
for oneself, so that one can continue to avail oneself of it; and on the other hand, preserving oneself
for the self, so that one can avail oneself of oneself—so that one can
be oneself, an owner or colonizer. Self-preservation is the property relation
in actu, expressive of a modern political ontology positively obsessed with race, for race is the way Being is said in modernity. This is a
political and theological problem of the highest order, and it is a hard teaching.
Yet it can perhaps help those who want of ears to hear to understand what Wilderson means to say when he claims that “White people are not simply ‘protected’ by the police, they are the police.”
It is not clear what should be done, or what can be done, to ameliorate this state of affairs—the order of violence we call the world. One would have to cease to be oneself, put an end to oneself.
Or put an end to the world."
In summary, with all the circuitous dancing cut out, he seems to be saying self preservation is the province of the oppressor, or is something that black people lack due to their lack of place(forgive me I find the postmodern rubbish as confusing as you do).
Read the bolded part. Wow. That is fucking disturbing.
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