Disposable Subjects: Staging Illegality and Racial Terror in the Borderlands

IF 1.3 Q2 ETHNIC STUDIES

Critical Philosophy of Race Pub Date : 2019-01-17 DOI:10.5325/CRITPHILRACE.7.1.0160

Armand Garcia

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract:This article draws on Gloria Anzaldúa’s philosophy to analyze Latina/o cultural forms as responses to the lawful violence that renders migrants and other minoritarian peoples as disposable subjects. The article turns to Latina/o playwrights and undocumented poets whose art forms, produced under the deportation regime, express a desire for freedom from terrorizing governance. Focusing on Lydia (2008), a play by Mexican American playwright Octavio Solis, and poetry by an undocumented artist, Yosimar Reyes, it links these representations of “illegal” migrants to understand how minoritarian aesthetic practices respond to racial terror and lawful violence. It argues that if we are to map the present beyond terrorizing forms of law, we must center our philosophical thought on “illegal” imaginaries of freedom, not on the cultural forms sanctioned by legality—the latter risk reproducing the logic of state-sponsored violence, whereas the former enact freedom as a practice of everyday life.

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可丢弃的主题:在边境地带上演非法和种族恐怖

摘要:本文借鉴Gloria Anzaldúa的哲学，分析拉丁/o文化形式对合法暴力的回应，这种暴力使移民和其他少数民族成为可抛弃的主体。这篇文章转向拉丁裔剧作家和无证诗人，他们的艺术形式是在驱逐制度下创作的，表达了对免于恐怖统治的自由的渴望。它以墨西哥裔美国剧作家奥克塔维奥·索利斯的戏剧《莉迪亚》(Lydia, 2008)和无证艺术家Yosimar Reyes的诗歌为中心，将这些“非法”移民的表现联系起来，以理解少数民族的审美实践如何回应种族恐怖和合法暴力。它认为，如果我们要在恐怖形式的法律之外描绘现在，我们必须把哲学思想集中在对自由的“非法”想象上，而不是集中在合法认可的文化形式上——后者冒着复制国家支持的暴力逻辑的风险，而前者则将自由作为日常生活的实践。

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Critical Philosophy of Race ETHNIC STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The critical philosophy of race consists in the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. Critical philosophy of race is a critical enterprise in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical enterprise because of its engagement with traditional philosophical questions and in its readiness to engage critically some of the traditional answers.