the question is, how do we connect this to the coloniality of power? beyond the mostly white folks that were interviewed in this documentary?
i see the dialectical relationship between "the choices" we make to the structures of capital as an important factor that informs my decision to stay off of the devil's poison.
drugs/alcohol are but one of the many poisons in the matrix of power...que no?
I suppose going into a documentary about a predominantly White male subculture, I wouldn't expect a huge representation of People of Color or women. However, the documentary does interview both.
Ironically in the entry following this one I provide a link to Joshua from Everything Is Dangerous beginning to address some of the points you bring up:
there is a danger in assuming that merely having people of color or women in one's documentary will address the issues (!) around coloniality and patriarchy among other issues. One needs only to look at Condoleezza Rice and Alberto Gonzales, who carried out torture at home and abroad without a timeout.
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cool. that's half of the battle.
the question is, how do we connect this to the coloniality of power? beyond the mostly white folks that were interviewed in this documentary?
i see the dialectical relationship between "the choices" we make to the structures of capital as an important factor that informs my decision to stay off of the devil's poison.
drugs/alcohol are but one of the many poisons in the matrix of power...que no?
j-the-red-fox.
I suppose going into a documentary about a predominantly White male subculture, I wouldn't expect a huge representation of People of Color or women. However, the documentary does interview both.
Ironically in the entry following this one I provide a link to Joshua from Everything Is Dangerous beginning to address some of the points you bring up:
"And the punk scene largely provides what is a generally age-appropriate politics of negation. It's necessary, at a certain stage, to say "no" or (better yet) "fuck you" to any number of traditions, institutions, etc. that get hoisted onto us. Straighedge, veganism -- things that have served me quite well, mind you -- are effectively a politics of what one doesn't do. They line up nicely with the purity/athenticity debates that result when perfectly reasonable skepticism about co-optation devolves into mindless pablum. But eventually, one has to come around to grapple with what one is willing to say "yes" to."
oh, and see you this weekend!
there is a danger in assuming that merely having people of color or women in one's documentary will address the issues (!) around coloniality and patriarchy among other issues. One needs only to look at Condoleezza Rice and Alberto Gonzales, who carried out torture at home and abroad without a timeout.
see you soon, young tiger #4.
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