visa
Mohammed got a six month multiple entry visa! Beautiful words. Thanks for your nice comment also strangeglitter , it was nice to have a perspective on likelihoods.
Here's what I was reading while waiting for the visa (emphasis mine):
The apparently uncontrollable irruptions of the anonymous outsider, as immigrant but stretching away through shades of uncomprehension to potential ‘terrorist’, become ‘events’ that produce the pure and brutal inscription of power which configures decisions, governmentality, and ‘norms’. It generates the political environment and cultural ecology that seek to preempt and anticipate cultural and historical scenarios in order to colonise the world, its languages, its time, its becoming. As a preventive power structure, such a state of affairs seeks to direct and discipline memories that you have not yet had. The future is already inscribed in the social, cultural, and racialised premises that police the present.
Iain Chambers - Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity.
Here's what I was reading while waiting for the visa (emphasis mine):
The apparently uncontrollable irruptions of the anonymous outsider, as immigrant but stretching away through shades of uncomprehension to potential ‘terrorist’, become ‘events’ that produce the pure and brutal inscription of power which configures decisions, governmentality, and ‘norms’. It generates the political environment and cultural ecology that seek to preempt and anticipate cultural and historical scenarios in order to colonise the world, its languages, its time, its becoming. As a preventive power structure, such a state of affairs seeks to direct and discipline memories that you have not yet had. The future is already inscribed in the social, cultural, and racialised premises that police the present.
Iain Chambers - Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity.