[NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach
helen varley jamieson
helen at creative-catalyst.com
Mon Nov 16 12:48:01 CET 2015
ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the women in black
encounter goes. great that you are able to attend :)
On 15/11/15 5:25 50AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>
> The encounter starts today check www.womeninblack.org
> <http://www.womeninblack.org>
>
> Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer" <agf at poemproducer.com
> <mailto:agf at poemproducer.com>>:
>
> Ana, this sounds so very good!
> happy to read this! do u have a link, more info?
>
>> On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés <agora158 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:agora158 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird read your
>> message in the lobby of Dubai airport on my way to Bangalore in
>> India where I am going to participate in a gathering of Women in
>> Black an international network of women committed to peace and
>> dialogue and against all kind of war and occupation.
>> We denounced the invasion of Irak, Libia and Irak as illegal as
>> much we denounced Saddam Husseins annexion of Kuwait and the war
>> between Iran and Irak. We are going to be around 100 women from
>> Cynthia Cocknurn old timer activist in Greenham Common and
>> professor in peace and conflict to Rebecca Jonsson one of the
>> most outspoken critics of Natos expansion.
>> We are going to have Israeli women fighting the occupation and
>> Palestine fighting their own male models we are going to have
>> Armenian women protesting the war in Nagorno Karabaj and
>> Tjetenien mothers of soldiers.
>> >From Colombia and Mexico and Argentina we are going to connect
>> with women searching their missing relatives mostly courtesy of
>> the US supported right wing militia.
>> Cheers
>> Ana
>>
>> Den 13 nov 2015 18:21 skrev "Johannes Birringer"
>> <Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk
>> <mailto:Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk>>:
>>
>>
>> Some of you probably remember that last winter Alan Sondheim
>> and I moderated an online discussion on ISIS and terror &
>> performance,
>> (empyre list), and some of it may have spilled over here or
>> you were of course aware of the worsening of the situation in
>> Syria and Iraq.
>> The discussion, I think, also of course also hit closer to
>> home when we ponder what terror means to us, or how we think
>> it and what our
>> histories and political affiliations or stands are, or have been.
>>
>> I remember after the debate last November, Alan and I tried
>> to find a publisher to see whether the raw, emotional,
>> intense yet diversely positioned and often poetic
>> articulations of the participants
>> could be published, but we had no luck. Earlier this year I
>> tried to write again about terror, ISIS, masks, and also
>> confront what may be my own phantasms or prejudices towards
>> militant Islam and also towards
>> Western states and their necropolitics, and I grappled to
>> understand a little bit better what state formation might
>> mean for those fighting on the ground in the middle east.
>>
>> Driving on the motorway today, listening to BBC2, i was
>> baffled when a fundraiser for "Children in Need" was
>> interrupted by the DJ who brought news from US killing, by
>> drone, of presumably
>> one of the men on the videos released by ISIS, the presumed
>> "Jihadi John"; the person assumed to be this man pulverized
>> by the drone rocket (including all those in the car).
>> Strangely, I then had to listen
>> to the british prime minister praising the US commando strike
>> and also saying - referring to the Islamic State as an “evil
>> terrorist death cult" – that "Mr Emwazi is a barbaric
>> murderer. This "will be a strike at the heart of ISIL,
>> and it will demonstrate to those who would do Britain, our
>> people and our allies harm we have a long reach, we have
>> unwavering determination and we never forget about our citizens.”
>>
>> After returning to Children in Need, then the radio host
>> comes back with a brief interview with a fellow worker and
>> friend of one of the kidnapped victims of ISIS, who argued
>> that he would have prefered the british
>> government to help when they could've sought to press for the
>> hostage's release, as other countries had done; that the
>> prime minister's hypocrisy is repulsive, and that he also
>> would "have prefered Mr Emwazi to have been brought to justice."
>> I was relieved to hear a worker bring up this idea of
>> justice, and the political processes of negotiations that may
>> precede drone strikes. In any case, I was feeling sick when
>> all this surfaced on the radio. I wonder how this
>> played out in the US or in the Middle East, in Raqqa, or
>> other towns in the region. (A commentator on the radio, and
>> there always are 'experts' to be found quickly, it seems,
>> claimed to be a professor at the "Institute of Radicalization
>> & Political Violence," Kings College, and thought the strike
>> was great, and the drones are wonderful as their permanent
>> presence over the heads of peoples there instills fear)
>>
>> Johannes
>>
>>
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