[-empyre-] : Across borders and networks: migrants, asylum seekers, or refugee?

[Ana Valdés]

Babak i am not discussing technicalities here who ever said that quote had
a point and the comment was relevant and my question about the thousands
anonymous drowning in the shores of Europe is still on the table.
Ana
Den 16 feb 2016 23:43 skrev "Christina McPhee" <naxsmash at mac.com>:

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> or next time you need a book cover :-)
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> > On Feb 16, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Christina McPhee <naxsmash at mac.com> wrote:
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> > Re: wanting to be thinking on these topologies, freedom *and* survival,
> repression *and* production,
> >
> > I did, again last summer, during the first wave of the Syrian refugees,
> and came upon a figure like this:
> >
> > “Asylum”   http://www.christinamcphee.net/asylum/
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> > 2015  oil, graphite, paper collage and ink on muslin 165.7 x 99 x 6.3 cm
> >
> > She is leaving, freedom from, freedom to, and her dress is caught in the
> maelstrom.  Or/and this is not a silhouette,  is this a navigation?
> >
> > -cm
> >
> >
> > Ian wrote,
> >
> >> On Feb 16, 2016, at 9:27 AM, Ian Paul <ianalanpaul at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I think the challenge in many ways for us is in understanding borders
> and migrations (and their networks) in their historical specificity, while
> also understanding how those specificities are (re)produced in much more
> expansive processes that both exceed and precede them. And so, how can we
> think of borders and migrations as being both cause and effect? Both agent
> and object? Things that both separate and tie together? We should be able
> to think of borders as being both productive and repressive, enabling
> certain forms of life while seeking to eradicate others. We should be able
> to think of migrations as being an expression of freedom and perhaps even
> poetry, while also being able to think of them as also at times being
> driven by necessity and survival. I want to be thinking on these
> topologies: freedom *and* survival, repression *and* production.
> >
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