U.S. Mexico Wall (National Geographic)
In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown considers walling movements as iconographic of sovereign predicaments in the post-Westphalian age. “If walls do not actually accomplish the interdiction fueling and legitimating them,” she writes, “if they perversely institutionalize the contested and degraded status of the boundaries they limn, they nevertheless stage both sovereign jurisdiction and an aura of sovereign power and awe. Walls thus bear the irony of being mute, material and prosaic, yet potentially generative of theological awe largely unrelated to their quotidian functions or failures.”
Join InterCcECT for a discussion of these ironies next week. Tuesday 23 August, 4pm. Contact us for directions.
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