'the loss of freedom, the loss of the sense of time, the loss of the capacity to watch over oneself and take care of oneself, the loss of relation and of world, [Fanon] thought, constituted the real drama of the ill person and the alienated individual' (Mbembe, Necropolitics)

RT @MaxFromMax: @toby00green Nothing to do with this, I'm sure...

I wonder why?

@SilverHollowsz @Medical_Nemesis yes. and also, yes -- there are.

@Memory_Hound unless work comes in with a suspiciously '"perfect" and yet banal grammar. Then you know "something else" has been involved...

@Medical_Nemesis @SilverHollowsz basically, yes.

@araujohistorian of course. But scholars worldwide -- in Timbuktu, in Malay texts made with palm fibre, in Mesoamerican codices, as well as in Europe -- have had this as an ancient practice. We cannot address it if we do not identify the issue and discuss it.

@KrischanWolf I am afraid it is so.

RT @mialva11: In Milwaukee, ICE detained a Puerto Rican family for speaking Spanish.

@LarsDenmar I think it depends on definitions, as often.

Capitalism is clearly failing. In fact, it failed in 2008 - and the fact that this was not allowed to happen then is the main cause of the far greater depth of the current crisis.

@AliB_iCoach and that is a very good question. There are some answers, but rather than point fingers it/we certainly needs to do more.

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A poem Grexit Brexit Frexit Lexit X-it Musket.

@MurielBlaivePhD @KrischanWolf @BBarucker @c_drosten In the light of day now it is still baffling, and really appalling.

@blujuliette @AfricaCDC whatever is least discussed is probably what is most worth thinking about.