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SUMMARY:Lethal Abstraction and Alter-Abstractions
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DESCRIPTION:The ongoing violence of colonialism has been characterized as 
 a "lethal abstraction" (Denise Ferreira da Silva). Indeed\, capitalism has
  always fed on more or less violent abstractions from existing forms of li
 fe through disruptions\, expulsions and extractions. The skylines of the w
 orld's financial districts\, those monuments to the flows of deterritorial
 ized capital\, are built on enslavement\, genocide and ecocide—from Poto
 sí to the Atacama\, from Congo to Palestine. Yet the association of abstr
 action with the violence of extractivism and the forced "clearing" of land
  raises fundamental questions. What are the alternatives to identifying in
 digenous and precapitalist societies with pure concretion\, and turning ab
 straction as such into a mere handmaiden of imperialism? Discussing a numb
 er of artistic\, theoretical and activist practices\, this lecture seeks t
 o sound out alter-abstractions: ways of abstracting otherwise.
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 tions
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