I write on Sharjeel Imam as a committed democrat who deserves a place in a radical democratic project of the future, one focused on the liberty and equality of all.
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"It is by labeling something a security issue that it becomes one. In this sense, the securitizing move is the speech act. It is the utterance itself that is the act. By saying the words, something is done"~Buzan, Wæver, and de Wilde
@ShekharGupta Shekhar Gupta is a captive of institutional orthodoxy. He completely misses the value of a "Sharjeelian parrhesiastes" one who embraces absolute vulnerability to tell inconvenient truths that Gupta’s fanatical institutional framework simply cannot tolerate.
@tishasaroyan The category of oppression in the liberal framework is linked with the fusion of arbitrary prejudiced https://t.co/matHUV5ee7 doesn't qualify to propose an substantive argument, for it will fall back into what it wants to negate.
@tishasaroyan circulation is faster and more reliable than the hardships of family incarcerations, the turnabouts of which kept audiences laughing for centuries from Ancient Greek comedy to Molière.
@tishasaroyan passing, between our tabloids’ “Enjoy it, women!” and our great-grandmothers’ dictate “Don’t enjoy it!” Lacan long ago established an isomorphism. Commercial control is more constant, more certain, more massive than patriarchal control could ever be. Generalized prostitutional