We Need not a New But an Indecent Materialism: Transmigrant, Transfeminist and Transgender Struggles
In the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall we witnessed a blossoming of identity politics that in the form of multiculturalism was seen as a purely cultural phenomenon, but maybe we missed calling it a process of racialization that functions as matrix that sustains a monopoly on violent classifi...
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| description | In the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall we witnessed a blossoming of identity politics that in the form of multiculturalism was seen as a purely cultural phenomenon, but maybe we missed calling it a process of racialization that functions as matrix that sustains a monopoly on violent classifications, which decide who lives and who has to die. Therefore transmigrant, transfeminist and transgender struggles have to putthe relations of capital, power and labour at the center of investigation and contestation, as well as the expropriated surplus value that created superfluous populations, intensified capital’s militarization and rampant deprivation and, last but not least, the Western, Occidental, White Matrix of Power, which is the matrix of pure colonial violence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e1796e04dcc64738b8c92aaaed0674c22022-12-21T18:18:12ZengSingidunum University. Faculty of Media and CommunicationsAM: Art + Media2217-96662406-16542015-10-0108132010.25038/am.v0i8.100101We Need not a New But an Indecent Materialism: Transmigrant, Transfeminist and Transgender StrugglesMarina Gržinić0Academy of Fine Arts, ViennaIn the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall we witnessed a blossoming of identity politics that in the form of multiculturalism was seen as a purely cultural phenomenon, but maybe we missed calling it a process of racialization that functions as matrix that sustains a monopoly on violent classifications, which decide who lives and who has to die. Therefore transmigrant, transfeminist and transgender struggles have to putthe relations of capital, power and labour at the center of investigation and contestation, as well as the expropriated surplus value that created superfluous populations, intensified capital’s militarization and rampant deprivation and, last but not least, the Western, Occidental, White Matrix of Power, which is the matrix of pure colonial violence.http://fmkjournals.fmk.edu.rs/index.php/AM/article/view/100Berlin Wall, Western, Occidental, White Matrix of Power |
| spellingShingle | Marina Gržinić We Need not a New But an Indecent Materialism: Transmigrant, Transfeminist and Transgender Struggles AM: Art + Media Berlin Wall, Western, Occidental, White Matrix of Power |
| title | We Need not a New But an Indecent Materialism: Transmigrant, Transfeminist and Transgender Struggles |
| title_full | We Need not a New But an Indecent Materialism: Transmigrant, Transfeminist and Transgender Struggles |
| title_fullStr | We Need not a New But an Indecent Materialism: Transmigrant, Transfeminist and Transgender Struggles |
| title_full_unstemmed | We Need not a New But an Indecent Materialism: Transmigrant, Transfeminist and Transgender Struggles |
| title_short | We Need not a New But an Indecent Materialism: Transmigrant, Transfeminist and Transgender Struggles |
| title_sort | we need not a new but an indecent materialism transmigrant transfeminist and transgender struggles |
| topic | Berlin Wall, Western, Occidental, White Matrix of Power |
| url | http://fmkjournals.fmk.edu.rs/index.php/AM/article/view/100 |
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