Wednesday, April 20, 2011

(non)taxonomies of control

Like Monica, I felt that The Human Race Machine, provided more tools than Gonzalez gave it credit for. I think frustration in this case might be more productive that she argues, because the transformed images are still in large part "rooted in the organic" (paraphrase?). The pictures are alterations of biologically and genetically inherited traits. Despite that, I think Gonzalez does an amazing job of situating how privilege distorts and doesn't take into account real a/e-ffects of race and racialization. However, I think back to Deleuze and his plea to keep in mind that the self conscious fluidity and decenteredness of societies of control isn't strictly liberating, is this speak of race as means or technique for dealing with difference merely a re-structuring of capitalism to serve our "global village" (in Ien Ang's terms)

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