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Kristin Ross' "The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life"

LARB Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The Dangers of Self-Enclosed Cells

Kristen Ross: I stand in a kind of admiration for the way that people fought against those kinds of tendencies, which arise everywhere. The right-wing variety of these things are truly horrible. But even a less extreme version of that is always a danger. At the Zod, they had to figure out how to police themselves because the police wouldn't go into the zone and they didn't want the police in the zone. They invented this method of pulling the names of 12 people's names out of a hat every month, and those 12 people would be something like a council where anyone who had any kind of trouble or antagonism or was acting anti-social. That feels very American,

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