{"id":1803,"date":"2015-04-29T19:56:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2015-04-30T19:46:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:46:51","slug":"the-fergusonayotzinapa-dictionary-encyclopedia-of-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/urbanities\/the-fergusonayotzinapa-dictionary-encyclopedia-of-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ferguson\/Ayotzinapa Dictionary (Encyclopedia of Oppression)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo issued by the Government of Guerrero, via Wikipedia entry for “2014 Iguala Mass Kidnapping”<\/p><\/div>\n

NOTE<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I started writing the attached FERGUSON AYOTZINAPA DICTIONARY<\/a><\/i>\u00a0while on de facto paternity leave, in lieu of being able to work on larger projects, often writing with my right hand while holding my infant daughter in the left, during the month of November 2014, a brutal month for state violence in Mexico and the United States.\u00a0 Bloody everywhere else in the world, too.\u00a0 The orientational distribution right-left is telling:\u00a0 this dictionary of political-philosophical terms does not propose itself as an ameliorative or solution to state violence in the slightest, but is simply a navigational chart for oppression.\u00a0 The right hand is always right, after all, y no se culpe a nadie.<\/i><\/p>\n

The dictionary must therefore follow certain rules of composition:<\/i><\/p>\n

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  1. It has no author, and anyone can add items to the list, so long as they continue to disseminate it in some fashion.<\/i><\/li>\n
  2. Entries must never be alphabetized. \u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n
  3. Multiple definitions should appear as separate entries.\u00a0 Terms should be duplicated and duplicates should become triplicates, etc.<\/i><\/li>\n
  4. There must never be a definitive version of the encyclopedia.\u00a0 It should remain forever indefinite.\u00a0 Like a folk song.<\/i><\/li>\n
  5. Entries may be contradictory.\u00a0 Entries should be contradictory.\u00a0 Instead of correcting an entry, a new entry should simply be appended that contradicts or refines the prior one.<\/i><\/li>\n
  6. This Note is the only element of this document that must be preserved verbatim in future versions, since rules are the only legacy we bequeath to the future.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t follow the rules exactly, however inexact the outcomes might be, then you will be forever cursed.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The genre of this document is therefore not philosophy, but rather the chain letter.\u00a0 One in which failure to send forward does not levy a curse against the recipient, since we are all cursed already.\u00a0 A chain letter in which the chains are literal.\u00a0 Not philosophy, then, but poetry.\u00a0 Poetry that eats philosophy and theory and makes them literal inscription.\u00a0 An offense against thought.\u00a0 Hands up, this is the right hand typing again.\u00a0 My left hand clings desperately to hope.\u00a0 But the right hand of the father has already decided what will be done and now seeks out a hammer to hit something (cf. Heidegger) or a knife to cut something (cf. Schmitt) or a laptop to write.\u00a0 Right makes write.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    NOTE I started writing the attached FERGUSON AYOTZINAPA DICTIONARY\u00a0while on de facto paternity leave, in lieu of being able to work on larger projects, often writing with my right hand while holding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualities","category-theory","category-urbanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openhumanitiespress.org\/feedback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}