Argentine-Brazilian anthropologist Rita Segato talks about “the pedagogy of cruelty”. In an interview she gave last year (translations mine through and through), she pointed out a few key elements that, to me, are worth considering in these discussions. Namely, that today, capitalism depends on a strategy of habitual cruelty for the purpose of numbing us to its effects. The current paradigm of exploitation requires a wide spectrum of vulnerability of human life. In this context, harassment is the strategy.
Political Strategy and Buzzfeed’s analysis of “the Twitter problem” — Medium
I wrote something about violence as political strategy and the foundation over which exploitation rests.
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