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“The fundamental strategy of colonization is actually quite simple: if you intend to destroy an individual or group, first destroy their dreams, their languages, and their habitat. From there, it’s a process of instilling in the colonized people a veneration for all that civilization has created and represents, and cultivating in their minds a psychology of dependence and submissiveness: just shape their thoughts in the brutal mould of civilization, until the majority of the colonized subjects can no longer think in terms of freedom any more than a bee can think in terms of poetry or mathematics. And it’s this slave instinct, crystallized in our natures over the course of thousands of years, which petrifies us and deadens our responses to the totalistic nightmare we are faced with. The domestication of our species has been occurring for a long time, and the failure of ‘working class’ revolutions makes a lot more sense when we consider the stern slave instincts that have been carved into their fibre by ten thousand colonized generations, to whose iron mandates they bend as unconsciously as they do to the demands of their belly.”

#Politics #civilization #decolonization

Tomorrow we kick off our conference “Memory Processes in Imperial Lifeworlds”. We explore how objects—from wristwatches and gloves to monuments—shaped and still shape #decolonization in Europe and its former colonies.

One example: Stephen Foose (Marburg) on British passports—small objects with a huge impact on unequal global mobility. 👇

Online participation is possible!
==>https://www.dhi-paris.fr/de/termindetails/online-und-vor-ort-erinnerungsprozesse-in-imperialen-lebenswelten.html

#objecthistory #materialturn #Africa #colonialism #memorystudies

This video report by independent journalist Richard Medhurst discusses the 2026 political transition in Iran following the assassination of Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali #Khamenei. Medhurst argues that the subsequent election of Mojtaba Khamenei as successor demonstrates the resilience of Iran's leadership structure and counters Western media narratives about the country's political stability

#Iran #Israel #us #usa #uspol #eupol #deprogramming #decolonization

https://youtu.be/YDs2PgY7OTQ

"As nations across the Global South seek technological autonomy, they confront not just the immense capital requirements of advanced manufacturing — measured in billions of dollars for a single semiconductor fabrication facility — but the persistent hierarchies first established under colonialism and maintained through continuously evolving mechanisms of economic control after independence. India’s experience reveals that successfully navigating global technology markets demands more than capital or skilled labor. It requires fundamentally dif­ferent institutional arrangements and social relations than those that emerged from the postcolonial period — arrangements that have yet to be imagined, let alone implemented.

Yet the story need not end here. The moment of decolonization reminds us that other worlds were once possible — that technological development need not inevitably reproduce patterns of dependence. Any renewed struggle for technological sovereignty must begin by reclaiming the revolutionary promise of that first decolonial moment, while appreciating that genuine independence requires not just scientific expertise or state planning, but fundamental social and political transformation. Only by recognizing how the tragedy of failed decolonization gave way to the farce of contemporary technological nationalism can we begin to shape futures that break, at last, from this unrelenting cycle."

https://restofworld.org/2026/dwaipayan-banerjee-india-technology-book

#India #TechSovereignty #DigitalSovereignty #Decolonization #BigTech #Nationalism

Watches, passports, flags, gloves, artworks or big monuments: Objects shape our everyday lives. They play a role in history, and it's not always the one people thought they would. Objects also make the past visible in the present, they shape our memory of historical events. This is particularly true in the long history of interaction, domination and resistance between "the West" and "the Rest" and in the way we remember it today.
In our conference from 18-20 march, we want to look at the role all these different objects played and still play in the decolonization of Europe and its former colonies.

#decolonization #objecthistory #materialturn #Africa #colonialism #memorystudies

One of Northern #Canada’s most influential #Indigenous leaders has passed into the spirit world. RIP and Power. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/frank-t-seleie-historic-dene-leader-dead-at-80-9.7121554

#Decolonization #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

DECOLONIZATION

"What the civilized social order requires to function before all else is mediocrity of the highest order—and we continue to submit to this degradation of life because our ancestors were slaves and our minds are still crowded with slavish superstitions and fictions. The primary “revolution”—to use an extremely loaded and suspect term—is to purge the slave from our consciousness and allow a new freedom to emerge through the layers of dead skin. Imagination is the emergency exit here and the more we reclaim our colonized imaginations and surrender to the fever of our authentic dreams, the more we awaken the volcanos of liberation that will one day set fire to this diseased system."

(Green Anarchy, "Uncivilized")

#decolonization #civilization #politics #slavery #freedom #consciousness #green #anarchy