Trumpism and Being in Worlds that Fall Between Worlds

In response to Kyle McGee’s Heathen Earth , this paper says something about the place of toxic legacies in the rise and sustenance of ‘Trumpism’. It takes an interest in rusting factories, melting ice, etc., but as assemblages that are tricky because they concern a build up of externalities and rela...

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Published in:Law and critique 2017-07, Vol.28 (2), p.127-133
Main Author: Moncrieff, Lilian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Cultural Studies
Education
Externality
Factories
Gender Studies
Human Rights
Legal History
Philosophy
Philosophy of Law
Political science
Politics
Presidents
Schemas
Supervision
Theories of Law
Thresholds
Trump, Donald J
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Summary:In response to Kyle McGee’s Heathen Earth , this paper says something about the place of toxic legacies in the rise and sustenance of ‘Trumpism’. It takes an interest in rusting factories, melting ice, etc., but as assemblages that are tricky because they concern a build up of externalities and relational factors for which there is a deficit of known co-ordinates. The term ‘sludge’ is sometimes affixed to these unexplained accumulations, which attend the (productive) neglect of externalities in overlapping schemas of relationality. The paper relates this ‘sludge’ to the emergence of a void, somewhere below the legal thresholds of accountability, into which words and actions can be thrown ‘at will’. This void is muddy, and makes politics unbearable to watch; and, yet, we are caught in a loop of reproducing the void through our own charting and supervision of action and, then, being shocked by the filth that comes out. The comment ends with a brief reflection on attending to the situation of forgotten existences and living with the ruins of past and present worlds.
ISSN:0957-8536
1572-8617
DOI:10.1007/s10978-017-9205-8