rousselle politics law
politics involves the administration of fear, it is the fear of fear itself. – duane rousselle
via duane rousselle’s after post anarchism:
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Contrarily, politics begins with our frightening relationship to things in the world and with our inability to become the thing among things that we are.
Walter Benjamin knew very well that children had no need for politics. He took pleasure in his childhood relationship to things, a pleasure surmounted by an extreme discomfort on the verge of his collapse. Very nearly had the young Benjamin become a thing among the things that inhabited the space of his hiding place. By encasing himself within the world of things, he threatened to destroy himself and become a thing with them: “The child who stands behind the doorway curtain himself becomes something white that flutters […] and behind a door, he is himself a door” (Benjamin, 2006: 99). The human intruder invited panic in Benjamin: “In my hiding place, I realize what was true about all of this. Whoever discovered me could hold me petrified […] [and] confine me for life within the heavy door. Should the person looking for me uncover my lair, I would therefore give a loud shout […] with a cry of self-liberation” (ibid., 100). A cry, perchance for having failed in his impossible task, for having chosen to be human in the face of abjection; a cry that sounded in the memory of an adult day-dreaming of his more capable childhood. In the withdrawal of things from view, fear and anxiety are primordial—and the distance (however close) of things to view is the founding for politics.
Politics involves the administration of fear, it is the fear of fear itself.
bn – no fear et al
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