Greetings, Romans: I am not going to write about Gaza, not now, at least not directly. Others will, perhaps because they know. But I have nothing to say, and I’m saying it. Irish anthropologist Mark Maguire and I have been struggling for some years with how polities may imagine the shape of violence to come, and hence how they (we) construct security regimes. What stories do we tell ourselves, not least so that we may budget state funds to address what we believe to be needful?
Everyone is a critic, and the fact that the critics are right doesn’t make anything better on my end. But the thinking, or at least the effort to think, is good, well, honest.
Everyone is a critic, and the fact that the critics are right doesn’t make anything better on my end. But the thinking, or at least the effort to think, is good, well, honest.