<div dir="ltr">As we await Paul's and Paula's response, I'm going to bring in Jenn Gradecki from Northeastern. Jennifer, you suggested that your dissertation may have such overlap with what we're discussing today. Maybe you want to start with a bit of an intro to your research?<div><br></div><div>Thanks! </div><div>B</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 8:04 PM Byron Rich <<a href="mailto:brich@allegheny.edu" target="_blank">brich@allegheny.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>Alex's in-depth and wonderfully articulated response to Paul seems a perfect transition into our third guest, Paula Burleigh, formerly of the Whitney and now a colleague at Allegheny College. </div><div><br></div><div>Paula, maybe you can help unpack some of Alex's thoughts, especially on the conservative adoption of "carrying capacity" as a rallying cry for immigration reform not just in the USA, but also in Greece, Italy, and, as I experienced last week, Sweden, where the re-emergence (or more frighteningly more accepted) of anti-zionist/anti-Islamic sentiments that seem to be less fringe than in my, albeit short, millennial memory. I think of Moreshin Allahyari's work <span style="letter-spacing:0.28px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>She Who Sees the Unknown: HUMA </i>from 2016 where she pusses back against colonialism with "forgotten goddesses" in an act of resistance. </font></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing:0.28px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.28px">Paul, Alex, maybe you can work in some more about your own work.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.28px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.28px">B</span></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 7:10 AM Alex Young <<a href="mailto:info@worldshaving.info" target="_blank">info@worldshaving.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings Byron, Paul, and those reading (and thank you Byron for inviting me to participate in this discussion);</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">First, I'd like to thank Paul for beginning with that description of embodied experience regarding corporeal and spatial relations to the boundaries of abstract political entities. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In response to Byron's prompt, with consideration to Benedict Anderson, the modern nation state is nothing if not the product of technological mediation (print media). That said, perhaps what we are perceiving as a modification in the form of nationalism in the present is a symptom of how it may share less with prior periods of heightened expression of national identity such as the 19th C's rampant imaginary identity formation and consolidation of power, late 19th/ early 20th C imperial expansion and subsummation of territory, and 20th C conflict of geopolitical epistemes than its retrogressive appearance might suggest. The current climate of nationalism--and the attendant hatred and discrimination of those determined to be 'other'--is more a product of a defense of the idea of the nation-state in the form of individual nation states. In this sense the nation-state operates as a successful meme (in the Dawkinsian sense) that has mutated into its current form and will continue to struggle to survive and replicate itself until another socio-politico-technological system forces it to cease. However, given the proliferation and power of non-state organizations that operate platforms that do not exist solely within any particular sovereign territory, the nation-state looks more and more atavistic... this has almost certainly fueled a degree of fear and uncertainty particularly among those indoctrinated in beliefs that are pretty much incompatible with (or antagonistically in denial of) current realities. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As for my current research-practice, I have found myself revisiting Bateson's 'ecology of bad ideas' paired with Dawkin's conception of the 'meme' in an excavation of the development of environmental movements in the 19th and 20th C and particularly as they intersect with ideas of Neo-Malthusian and anti-human population growth... which, in part, began in response to some of Donna Haraway's more recent essays. While many who lived through the 1960-70s will likely recall elements of Hugh Moore's Population Bomb and Paul Ehrlich's book of the same name after him or perhaps The Limits to Growth... there are seemingly countless lines that can be drawn through State, NGO, and activist organizations that simultaneously exist on all ends of the conventional political spectrum. Of particular interest to this discussion may be the way in which planetary concerns of 'carrying capacity' have been muddled (beyond their original intent) and outright co-opted by conservative anti-immigration and white-nationalist groups in the 70s by figures like John Tanton--a former Chair of the Sierra Club Population Committee and President of the Paul Ehrlich founded Zero Population Growth who would later found and take on lead roles in a veritable who's who of anti-immigration hate to hate-adjacent groups including Federation for American Immigration Reform, NumbersUSA, and numerous others. Of course, Tanton is by no means an isolated incident in a realm most associate with left politics but rather merely a somewhat easy named example. I will leave it there for now, but there is a whole different spectrum coming from Deep Ecology and far-right environmentalism that I have also been excavating through the lens of Norwegian Black Metal celebrity Varg Vikernes' activity as an alt-right YouTube vlogger... but that is a story for another day...</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default">-A</div></div></div></div>
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