The charges against the renowned sociologist are a form of intellectual violence wrapped in objective scholarship.
Disposable Futures
In this interview with Brad Evans and Henry A. Giroux, the public intellectuals discuss their new book and what they mean by “disposable futures.”
Exposing violence is not the same as being exposed to it, though the former too often comes as a result of the latter.
Racist expression and exclusion are denied their social origin and systemic content, reduced to matters of private discrimination.
With constant news delivery, there is little time to contemplate tragedy such as the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
The white affluent and usually liberal audience for films such as Nightcrawler, experience no cognitive dissonance in such depictions of urban life.
“If you think of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia there were war crime tribunals because of atrocities. Those atrocities were absolutely no worse than the atrocities perpetrated by the US,”
The public is sold the idea of the need for violence to cure the world’s ills, despite our responsibility for creating those ills.
“We have become less and less aware of the changed environment in which disposing of lives takes place and the forms that disposability takes, so that we no longer recognise what is staring us in the face,” says Max Silverman.
Whether the long-term unemployed in the global North or the long-term displaced in the global South, people are being expelled from economy, society and nation in increasing numbers.