Critical insights from C21's Tennessen Scholars
Josh Rivers discusses how the systems created to purportedly support “security”: the state, the military, the police, borders, and so on exist not to ensure safety but to enact surveillance. In doing so, they produce insecure subjects.
Tennessen Scholar Joni Hayward reflects on some of the more striking connections between our recent Insecurity conference and the insecurity and precarity that underscore life as a graduate student.
Josh Rivers points out how understanding -cenes as a coalescing of contingencies into a present historical condition (rather than simply temporal epochs) helps inform Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing’s notion of the Plantationocene. Specifically, understanding the Plantationocene as a present systemic condition allows us to think more productively about Haraway’s “attachment sites”—the small, often transactional moments where larger systems of production connect with individual lives and vice versa.
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