ENGL 2P53 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gluttony, Barbecue, Amandala
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Rob nixon: definition of slow violence & amandala! We are accustomed to conceiving of violence in terms that are immediate, explosive and spectacular, as erupting into instant, concentrated visibility. Slow violence: operates across different scales of space and time; sometimes effects manifest at a microcosmic level (cellular), sometimes widely dispersed, complex, less easy to pinpoint beginning and end points, or definitive causes and after effects. How to devise arresting stories, images, and symbols adequate to the elusive. How to adjust our rapidly eroding attention spans to the slow erosions of violence of delayed effects. environmental justice. Communities and families destructured, deskilled, improperly educated. Communities made vulnerable remain so when new threats (hiv/aids, e. g. ) arise. Policies often directed towards concrete and time-sensitive outcomes (easier to see in terms of spectacular violence) Nomaan: the nonchalance of the white men was a disturbing reflection of reality. Felman"s article suggests that to undergo trauma is a natural process.