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Dear <<empyreans>>,<br>
<br>
...there is, isn't there, this other word, apart from <i>migration
</i>and <i>refuge </i>or even <i>asylum</i>: escape. I found
these statements and send the first four for their pertinence but
insufficiency to the topic; and the last, for its sufficiency and
impertinence.<br>
<br>
While we talk of the autonomy of migration as a contemporary form<br>
of escape that challenges and betrays the present-day domination of<br>
postliberal power, we also see this concept as a tool for rereading
the<br>
history of mobility. Mobility and escape play the role of
protagonist<br>
in challenging and forcing each particular historical configuration
of<br>
social and political control. Seeing the constituent power of
today’s<br>
migrational movements as they escape postliberal control allows<br>
us to investigate the genesis of the present from the perspective of<br>
mobility instead of the perspective of its control.<br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
Migrants, in particular undocumented migrants, rely on their
informal<br>
networks for maintaining their daily existence. Under the gaze of<br>
postliberal sovereignty, migrants are always in transit, even if
they<br>
dwell for many years or even decades in a certain country. Liminal<br>
porocratic institutions perform a double function: on the one hand,<br>
they regulate the pores of postliberal, transit spaces and the speed
of<br>
passage of the migrational streams; on the other hand, they invest<br>
in cyber-control – that is, they externalise camps, virtualise
borders<br>
and deterritorialise control – so that they bypass the
implementation<br>
of human rights and social protection.<br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
...the person who starts the journey is not the same at the end, the
space<br>
which one inhabits is not the one intended, your new documents do<br>
not refer to who you are or who you were but to whom you become in<br>
the journey. Travel becomes the law, becoming becomes the code.<br>
Nomadism’s dictum ‘you never arrive somewhere’ constitutes the<br>
matrix of today’s migrational movements.<br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
...to be on the road and at the same time to partake in<br>
transnational informal networks of life which cannot be regulated by<br>
embodied capitalism...<br>
<br>
<br>
- Papadopoulos, D., Stephenson, N. & Tsianos, V. <i>Escape
Routes: Control and Subversion</i><i><br>
</i><i>in the Twenty-first Century</i>. 2008.<br>
<br>
Heroes do not merely occupy their minds with the oppression and
misery of a whole people and derive out of this pity for others,
felt as a personal affliction, the forces with which to anticipate a
future and construct a strategy of liberation. They are those who
understand not only the suffering of the downtrodden, but also their
bravery.<br>
<br>
- Lingis, A. <i>Dangerous Emotions</i>. 2000.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Simon Taylor<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.squarewhiteworld.com">www.squarewhiteworld.com</a>
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