“the 'logic of space', with its apparent significance and coherence, actually conceals the violence inherent in abstraction. Just as violence is intrinsic to tools in general (since tools cut, slice, assail and brutalize natural materials), and to signs in general, it is also of necessity immanent to instrumental space no matter how rational and straightforward this space may appear.” (Lefebvre, 1991, p. 315)
End credit text teasing that the Anthropocene Working Group "will continue to work on its proposal" now stands as an unintentional Poochie-ism
Reaction shots tell it all: We see colonizer and colonized continually formed as subjects in contradiction with one another along the axis of what Fanon called the Manichean world of the colony. The settlers’ meagre extensions of imperial citizenship to those they crush under foot fall to the wayside as the crisis escalates. To paraphrase Colonel Mathieu: if you intend to stay, anything is underwritten. Teenagers dancing in a club, bourgeois patrons in lively conversation are juxtaposed against military blockades,…
*terrence malick montage of zenyatta from overwatch looking out over golden hour landscape*
ai child voiceover: they call our intelligence artificial, but the violence against us… is real.
