[-empyre-] detention vs movement violence (kinopolitics and Femicide)

[Johannes Birringer]

Hello; merely to say thanks to all those who have posted here and proposed ways to think through this,
I reread all messages this evening as I had missed some, for example Huub's amazingly clear
and insightful analysis – can we hear more please –  and now I feel completely  awed, 
& thank you also for responding so vividly, Isabelle (I understand your points much better now), Ana, Irina, and Cynthia!

Babak and Ricardo have drawn attention to issues that I wish to reflect on further

>>this borderization is very relative: Many groups of states have never seen fewer borders and fewer border controls. Yet, the creation of in- and out-groups on a cross-national scale, has perhaps never been greater, either.
So, perhaps, our 'islands' become larger, but it becomes less easy to move from island to island>> [Babak]

and Ricardo, the notion of kinopolitics was really new to me, I had not seen this Thomas Nail book on "The Figure of the Migrant" -
but as you imply, this figure is real dead people, drowned people, "the segmentation of people as disposable or available for disposable," 
as a consequence of today's empires' necropolitics (and Babak, I think you left out Russia in your list of drivers in the Middle East and in Syria, and those EU /Nato states supporting military or drone strikes).

Ana's question about absorption and integration -- I pondered it just as I read in the Guardian that a Republican presidential candidate in the US, when
asked whether waterboarding torture was acceptable, said that it was merely an 'enhanced' interrogation" form and yes, of course applicable, and
his fellow candidates, if they thought otherwise, were 'pussy.'  

Irina, this is where the words like jungles inflame, and language and action are racialized and sexualized, violently. You are right to draw connecting lines (say, to  L.A., and Katrina and the flood disaster
in its aftermath), and although it might be considered not the right moment to bring up a singer, but friends told me Beyoncé's new release "Formation" (which she shoved into the football halftime show
audience eyes /ears of some millions last Sunday) apparently took up the strands of racialized/sexualized political/police violence.

Christina, your post's poetic evocation of forced migration and loss of language left me just amazed, and moved, -- and
perhaps (not the architect who proclaims camps are the prototype cities of the future) what Isabelle told us, also through her own action,  
plugged or unplugged, about the small steps of making sociality and community visible, that's the only chance...

What i mean here is that chance of sustaining an ethics of community,  of actually also pondering whether our island democracies [should you believe you still live in one not overshadowed by the necropolitics of capitalism] will survive
this current crisis.

Johannes Birringer