When you tag things “#abolition”, what are you referring to? Abolishing what?
Prisons, generally. Though not just physical walls of formal prisons, but also captivity, carcerality, and carceral thinking. Including migrant detention; national border fences; indentured servitude; inability to move due to, and labor coerced through, debt; de facto imprisonment or isolation of the disabled or medically pathologized; privatization and enclosure of land; categories of “criminality"; etc.
In favor of other, better lives and futures.
Specifically, I am grateful to have learned from the work of these people:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on “abolition geography”.
Katherine McKittrick on "imaginative geographies"; emotional engagement with place/landscape; legacy of imperialism/slavery in conceptions of physical space and in devaluation of other-than-human lifeforms; escaping enclosure; plantation “afterlives” and how plantation logics continue to thrive in contemporary structures/institutions like cities, prisons, etc.; a “range of rebellions” through collaborative acts, refusal of the dominant order, and subversion through joy and autonomy.
Macarena Gomez-Barris on landscapes as “sacrifice zones”; people condemned to live in resource extraction colonies deemed as acceptable losses; place-making and ecological consciousness; and how “the enclosure, the plantation, the ship, and the prison” are analogous spaces of captivity.
Liat Ben-Moshe on disability; informal institutionalization and incarceration of disabled people through physical limitation, social ostracization, denial of aid, and institutional disavowal; and "letting go of hegemonic knowledge of crime”.
Achille Mbembe on co-existence and care; respect for other-than-human lifeforms; "necropolitics" and bare life/death; African cosmologies; historical evolution of chattel slavery into contemporary institutions through control over food, space, and definitions of life/land; the “explicit kinship between plantation slavery, colonial predation, and contemporary resource extraction” and modern institutions.
Robin Maynard on "generative refusal"; solidarity; shared experiences among homeless, incarcerated, disabled, Indigenous, Black communities; to "build community with" those who you are told to disregard in order "to re-imagine" worlds; envisioning, imagining, and then manifesting those alternative futures which are "already" here and alive.
Leniqueca Welcome on Caribbean world-making; "the apocalyptic temporality" of environmental disasters and the colonial denial of possible "revolutionary futures"; limits of reformism; "infrastructures of liberation at the end of the world."; "abolition is a practice oriented toward the full realization of decolonization, postnationalism, decarceration, and environmental sustainability."
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten on “the undercommons”; fugitivity; dis-order in academia and institutions; and sharing of knowledge.
AM Kanngieser on "deep listening"; “refusal as pedagogy”; and “attunement and attentiveness” in the face of “incomprehensible” and immense “loss of people and ecologies to capitalist brutalities”.
Lisa Lowe on "the intimacies of four continents" and how British politicians and planters feared that official legal abolition of chattel slavery would endanger Caribbean plantation profits, so they devised ways to import South Asian and East Asian laborers.
Ariella Aisha Azoulay on “rehearsals with others’.
Phil Neel on p0lice departments purposely targeting the poor as a way to raise municipal funds; the "suburbanization of poverty" especially in the Great Lakes region; the rise of lucrative "logistics empires" (warehousing, online order delivery, tech industries) at the edges of major urban agglomerations in "progressive" cities like Seattle dependent on "archipelagos" of poverty; and the relationship between job loss, homelessness, gentrification, and these logistics cities.
Alison Mountz on migrant detention; "carceral archipelagoes"; and the “death of asylum”.
Pedro Neves Marques on “one planet with many worlds inside it”; “parallel futures” of Indigenous, Black, disenfranchised communities/cosmologies; and how imperial/nationalist institutions try to foreclose or prevent other possible futures by purposely obscuring or destroying histories, cosmologies, etc.
Peter Redfield on the early twentieth-century French penal colony in tropical Guiana/Guyana; the prison's invocation of racist civilization/savagery mythologies; and its effects on locals.
Iain Chambers on racism of borders; obscured and/or forgotten lives of migrants; and disrupting modernity.
Paulo Tavares on colonial architecture; nationalist myth-making; and erasure of histories of Indigenous dispossession.
Elizabeth Povinelli on "geontopower"; imperial control over "life and death"; how imperial/nationalist formalization of private landownership and commodities relies on rigid definitions of dynamic ecosystems.
Kodwo Eshun on African cosmologies and futures; “the colonial present”; and imperialist/nationalist use of “preemptive” and “predictive” power to control the official storytelling/narrative of history and to destroy alternatives.
Tim Edensor on urban "ghosts" and “industrial ruins”; searching for the “gaps” and “silences” in the official narratives of nations/institutions, to pay attention to the histories, voices, lives obscured in formal accounts.
Megan Ybarra on place-making; "site fights"; solidarity and defiance of migrant detention; and geography of abolition/incarceration.
Sophie Sapp Moore on resistance, marronage, and "forms of counterplantation life"; "plantation worlds" which continue to live in contemporary industrial resource extraction and dispossession.
Deborah Cowen on “infrastructures of empire and resistance”; imperial/nationalist control of place/space; spaces of criminality and "making a life at the edge" of the law; “fugitive infrastructures”.
Elizabeth DeLoughrey on indentured labor; the role of plants, food, and botany in enslaved and fugitive communities; the nineteenth-century British Empire's labor in the South Pacific and Caribbean; the twentieth-century United States mistreatment of the South Pacific; and the role of tropical islands as "laboratories" and isolated open-air prisons for Britain and the US.
Dixa Ramirez D’Oleo on “remaining open to the gifts of the nonhuman” ecosystems; hinterlands and peripheries of empires; attentiveness to hidden landscapes/histories; defying surveillance; and building a world of mutually-flourishing companions.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on reciprocity; Indigenous pedagogy; abolitionism in Canada; camaraderie; solidarity; and “life-affirming” environmental relationships.
Anand Yang on "forgotten histories of Indian convicts in colonial Southeast Asia" and how the British Empire deported South Asian political prisoners to the region to simultaneously separate activists from their communities while forcing them into labor.
Sylvia Wynter on the “plot”; resisting the plantation; "plantation archipelagos"; and the “revolutionary demand for happiness”.
Pelin Tan on “exiled foods”; food sovereignty; building affirmative care networks in the face of detention, forced migration, and exile; connections between military rule, surveillance, industrial monocrop agriculture, and resource extraction; the “entanglement of solidarity” and ethics of feeding each other.
Avery Gordon on haunting; spectrality; the “death sentence” of being deemed “social waste” and being considered someone “without future”; "refusing" to participate; "escaping hell" and “living apart” by striking, squatting, resisting; cultivating "the many-headed hydra of the revolutionary Black Atlantic"; alternative, utopian, subjugated worldviews; despite attempts to destroy these futures, manifesting these better worlds, imagining them as "already here, alive, present."
Jasbir Puar on disability; debilitation; how the control of fences, borders, movement, and time management constitute conditions of de facto imprisonment; institutional control of illness/health as a weapon to "debilitate" people; how debt and chronic illness doom us to a “slow death”.
Kanwal Hameed and Katie Natanel on "liberation pedagogy"; sharing of knowledge, education, subversion of colonial legacy in universities; "anticolonial feminisms"; and “spaces of solidarity, revolt, retreat, and release”.
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EITM Playlist 12/2/22
Soul Asylum - Somebody To Shove | 6:07/5:07c
“The Indiana Jones Theme” | 6:24/5:24c
August Burns Red - Composure | 6:29/5:29c
Starcrawler - Stranded (Acoustic) | 7:01/6:01c
Motionless In White - Werewolf | 7:31/6:31c
The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy | 7:45/6:45c
Spacehog - In The Meantime | 7:51/6:51c
Selena Gomez - My Mind & Me | 8:28/7:28c
Nicky Youre - Eyes On You | 8:55/7:55c
Jean Dawson - PIRATE RADIO* | 9:18/8:18c
Elton John - Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going To Be A Long, Long Time) | 9:33/8:33c
Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City | 9:38/8:38c
Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) | 9:59/8:59c
Stephen Kellogg - Keep It Up, Kid | 10:08/9:08c
Architects - Broken Cross | 10:35/9:35c
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30 Monedas (30 Coins) - HBO Europe - November 29, 2020 - Present
Mystery / Horror (8 episodes to date)
Running Time: 60 minutes
Stars:
Eduard Fernández as Padre Manuel Vergara
Megan Montaner as Elena
Miguel Ángel Silvestre as Paco
Macarena Gómez as Merche
Other
Pepón Nieto as Sargento Lagunas
Manolo Solo as Cardinal Santoro
Cosimo Fusco as Angelo
Manuel Tallafe as Tabernero
Carmen Machi as Carmen
Paco Tous as Jesús
Secun de la Rosa as Martín.
Javier Bódalo [es] as Antonio (the village idiot)
Antonio Velázquez [es] as Roque
Nourdín Batán as Jaime
Carla Campra [es] as Vane
Carla Tous as Sole
Óscar Ortuño as Nacho
Abril Montilla [es] as Elvira
Alberto Bang as Richi
Leonardo Nigro as Sandro
Luigi Diberti as Lombardi
Víctor Clavijo [es] as Mario
Nuria González as Salcedo
Greta Fernández as Miralles
Francisco Reyes as Lagrange
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SERIE “30 MONEDAS” en HBO España
. El próximo 29 de noviembre llega a HBO España.
En 30 MONEDAS, el aclamado director de El día de la bestia, Balada triste de trompeta o Las brujas de Zugarramurdi, sumerge al espectador en un mundo donde nada es lo que parece y no se puede confiar en nadie. Su protagonista, el padre Vergara, es un exorcista, boxeador y exconvicto exiliado por el Vaticano en una parroquia de un pueblo remoto de España. Cuando Vergara es relacionado con una serie de fenómenos paranormales ocurridos en el pueblo, Paco, el ingenuo alcalde y Elena, una inquieta veterinaria, tratarán de desvelar los secretos de su pasado y el significado de la antigua moneda que Vergara mantiene oculta. Poco a poco, este insólito trío de héroes se encontrará inmerso en una conspiración global: la batalla por el control de las treinta monedas por las que el apóstol Judas Iscariote traicionó a Jesús de Nazaret.
30 MONEDAS está dirigida por Álex de la Iglesia y coescrita por Álex de la Iglesia y Jorge Guerricaechevarría, e incluye un destacado reparto compuesto por Eduard Fernández, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Megan Montaner, Macarena Gómez, Pepón Nieto, Manolo Solo o Carmen Machi. La serie es una producción de Pokeepsie Films para HBO Europe, con la participación de HBO Latin America.
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