comp nixon

slow violence

(most notes are in text)

chap 5 unimagined communities

“I refer here not to those communities that lie beyond the national boundaries but rather to
those unimagined communities internal to the space of the nation-state, communities whose
vigorously unimagined condition becomes indispensable to maintaining a highly selective
discourse of national development” (150)
(think about this in re to agnotology)

“the direct violence of physical eviction becomes coupled to an indirect bureaucratic and
media violence that creates and sustains the conditions for administered invisibility” (151)

chap 6 on this guy kleinhans, african game reserves:

“At the very moment of black empowerment in [African] society at large, Klienhans was
creating a racial and temporal enclave, a timeless island outline a time of change” (178)

“with foreign tourists and hunters pouring in under Mandela, kleinhans could capitalize on
resilient mythologies of international white masculinity for which the lion hunt could serve as a
seductive, profitable shorthand. In creating a racio-temporal island in a sea of black majority
rule he was simultaneously reaching out to an oceanic white wildlife kill-or-consume culture
that stretched beyond the nation” (179)