
08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Politics of Gun Violence in the United States
There's this complicated series of of invocations that constitute uh like constitutive rather than constitutional sort of terms here or or like gestures that are about naming us as being well we're being asked to identify with something that we aren't right. A lot of what the gun debate really is right and i really and i'm calling it a debate in a short time it isn't really a debate at all It's a whole series of rhetorical moves that are about credentializing and decredentializing about constituting who that us is and disavowing other members is being a part of that usRight another example here i just hate but it's one of the apparently people of liberals in particular are wedded
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