Join 📚Jof’S Book Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Jophin's read, .
The trouble is that ideals of freedom can be produced out of and within what Saidiya Hartman calls “scenes of subjection”—that freedom can legitimately be practiced as subjugation.10 Freedom can entail both nondomination and domination, both worldmaking and world destruction, both challenges to and impositions of unjust authority. Rather than disavowing this dynamic to discard subjugating freedoms as either insincerity or false consciousness, I take the ambivalence and violence of freedom’s expression seriously. Ugly Freedoms de-idealizes freedom and its entailments.
Ugly Freedoms
Elisabeth R. Anker
And in time we come to see that not only are we on the sidelines of the universe but that it’s of a universe of sidelines, that there is no centre, just a giddy mass of waltzing things, and that perhaps the entirety of our understanding consists of an elaborate and ever-evolving knowledge of our own extraneousness, a bashing away of mankind’s ego by the instruments of scientific enquiry until it is, that ego, a shattered edifice that lets light through.
In particular, touch’s unique quality of reversibility, that is, the fact of being touched by what we touch, puts the question of reciprocity at the heart of thinking and living with care.
Matters of Care
María Puig de la Bellacasa
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise