[-empyre-] furtive and heroic escape

[simon]

Dear <<empyreans>>,

...there is, isn't there, this other word, apart from /migration /and 
/refuge /or even /asylum/: 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.

While we talk of the autonomy of migration as a contemporary form
of escape that challenges and betrays the present-day domination of
postliberal power, we also see this concept as a tool for rereading the
history of mobility. Mobility and escape play the role of protagonist
in challenging and forcing each particular historical configuration of
social and political control. Seeing the constituent power of today’s
migrational movements as they escape postliberal control allows
us to investigate the genesis of the present from the perspective of
mobility instead of the perspective of its control.

...

Migrants, in particular undocumented migrants, rely on their informal
networks for maintaining their daily existence. Under the gaze of
postliberal sovereignty, migrants are always in transit, even if they
dwell for many years or even decades in a certain country. Liminal
porocratic institutions perform a double function: on the one hand,
they regulate the pores of postliberal, transit spaces and the speed of
passage of the migrational streams; on the other hand, they invest
in cyber-control – that is, they externalise camps, virtualise borders
and deterritorialise control – so that they bypass the implementation
of human rights and social protection.

...

...the person who starts the journey is not the same at the end, the space
which one inhabits is not the one intended, your new documents do
not refer to who you are or who you were but to whom you become in
the journey. Travel becomes the law, becoming becomes the code.
Nomadism’s dictum ‘you never arrive somewhere’ constitutes the
matrix of today’s migrational movements.

...

...to be on the road and at the same time to partake in
transnational informal networks of life which cannot be regulated by
embodied capitalism...


- Papadopoulos, D., Stephenson, N. & Tsianos, V. /Escape Routes: Control 
and Subversion//
//in the Twenty-first Century/. 2008.

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.

- Lingis, A. /Dangerous Emotions/. 2000.

Best,
Simon Taylor
www.squarewhiteworld.com
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