tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post492619426914987920..comments2024-03-28T09:51:55.365-06:00Comments on ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: "When Does Your Humanity Kick In?"Timothy Mortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-49050006674372402612014-12-04T18:01:20.921-06:002014-12-04T18:01:20.921-06:00Perhaps Al should consider his words because maybe...Perhaps Al should consider his words because maybe 'humanity' is the problem. As Carey Wolf wrote in his Before the Law Foucauldian/Agamben treatment of how the legal system frames animals: we are all potential animals ie deprived of personhood and made killable or sacrificiable (in whatever jargon one wants to put it). Thus a constrained and restructured definition of 'humanity' excludes the Michael Browns and Eric Garners of this word as non persons, lacking in humanity and killable by the government at will. I have met Al Sharpton a few time and the dude utters manipulative phrases designed to produce a familiar affective response -- just like Reagan did. The black men being murdered by police deserve a more intelligent and forceful advocate. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com