1. what would the french revolution have been without the photographeable quality of the guillotine, the dramatic rolling heads (for those with silk who would have cake), arguably the most famous image even if it was primarily a linguistic one, & so contrastive to the non-image of lenin's visage of that other revolutions( even with the later compensatory construction worker's abdomen)-& gandhi's immobile mug shot, how do you photograph a fasting, but monks do erupt in spheres of fire
2. india is going to be like pakistan- a permanent state of civil war, what difference does it make, swat valley or jharkand, taliban or naxals?-so we are the schiz'ed brothers yet. this developing world- guerillas in forests vs paramilitary etc, is different from militia-(r: am bracketing to make visual the sandhi )ized parts of LA, only in that in the latter there are no trees. as a political space they are the same, the same relation of state-power, cops, army, mafias, state & local financings, visual & imaginary spaces they occupy to the aliens (ie us the outsiders, journalists, social workers, adhd romantics..)
3. the leverage of the political is the ability to read, up-equilibrate crime as a political statement
4. india is going to america america this first half of the 21c just as america america'd europe from the post war period-to uncork this fact would be the fundamental challenge of reading this 1/2 of the century. (& then also play it against china, arab-turk worlds, muslim s asia, etc-)
5. politics is the exo skeleton our flesh can't quite grow into
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