Lovecidal Walking with the Disappeared

by Trinh T. Minh-ha

• ISBN13: 9780823271092
• ISBN10: 0823271099
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-07-18
• Publisher: Fordham University Press

Summary

In this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraq
and Afghanistan, or to China's occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. She also takes up the shifting dynamics of peoples' resistance to acts of militarism and surveillance as well as social media and its capacity to inform and mobilize citizens around the world.

At once an engaging treatise and a creative gesture, Lovecidal probes the physical and psychic conditions of the world and shows us a society that is profoundly heartsick. Taking up with those who march both as and for the oppressed--who walk with the disappeared to help carry them forward--Trinh T. Minh-ha engages the
spiritual and affective dimensions of a civilization organized around the rubrics of nonstop governmental subjugation, economic austerity, and highly technologized military conflict. In doing so, she clears a path for us to walk upon. Along with our every step, the world of the disappeared lives on.

Author Biography

Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer, composer and Professor of Rhetoric and of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes numerous books, such as D-Passage. The Digital Way (2013), Elsewhere, Within Here (2011), The Digital Film Event (2005), Cinema Interval (1999), Framer Framed (1992), When The Moon Waxes Red (1991), Woman, Native Other (1989); eight feature-length films (including Forgetting Vietnam 2015, Night Passage 2004, The Fourth Dimension 2001 and A Tale of Love 1996, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, 1989), which have been honored in numerous retrospectives around the world; several large-scale collaborative installations, including, Old Land New Waters, 2007-2008, (3rd Guangzhou Triennale, China 2008) L'Autre marche (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris 2006-2009), The Desert is Watching (Kyoto Biennial, 2003); and Nothing But Ways (Yerba Buena,1999). She was the recipient of many awards, including the Wild Dreamer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Subversive Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2014; the Lifetime Achievement Award from Women's Caucus for Art, 2012; the Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) for the book Elsewhere Within Here, 2012; and theTrailblazers Award, MIPDOC, Cannes International Documentary Film Event, France, 2006.

Table of Contents

Somewhere in the Process

Blind Energy

How to Write an Ending?
Liquid Denouement
Enhanced Security: "He Won"
Exiting: "The Dark Night Policy"

Specter of Vietnam
The Smell of Victory
Screen Replay

Twilight Walk

The Matter of War
The Oil Stain
Deep in the Red
"When Will They Be Ready, Really?"
Small Cell Large Cell
[Living Dead or Suicided? Please Choose]

Between Victor and Victor
The Strength to Lift A Hair
Twin Victories
A Legacy of Inflation

She, The Wayfarer
Walking with The Disappeared
Circle of Love: Pink, White and Black
[The Red-Blue Divide]

Thriving on a D-Stroll
A Hole in the Heart
Virtual Monument Censored
Miles of Strangeness
Light Weight

The Mole's Empire: Power of The Unseen
The Other Victory
[Terrorist Sightings]
In-humanity: Down Where It Hurts

Feeling The Way Out
The Crawl to Peace
When The General Cries
Washington's Visual Scar

The World is Watching
Lotus in Tears
"I am the Reality"
In the Night of Becoming
Small Acts on The Roof of The World

Walk for Rain

The New Rebels
The Blank Page
"Sensitive Cases"

Displaced, Dispossessed, Disappeared
The Great Uprooting
Sea of Immigrants
Rising From Mud and Muck
[The Odor of Fear ]

Interval of Resistance
The Empty Chair
The Image Under Erasure
Lotus Bomb(ed)

The Screensaver's Light
The Ultimate Protest
True Person of No Rank
[Snake in The Can]
A Bridge, A Boat, A Spark of Plenty

This Sky, Which Is Not Blue

Acknowledgment
Notes
Index