Remember how people kept saying the third world would face the most devastating effects of climate change before the first world (even tho the first world is responsible for the majority of climate change)?
Well, “Pakistan contributes less than 1 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases blamed for causing global warming, yet its 200 million people are among the world’s most vulnerable victims of the growing consequences of climate change. Pakistan is among 10 countries affected most by climate change, according to the 2018 Global Climate Risk Index released by the public policy group Germanwatch.”
These are the other countries, according to Germanwatch. Notice how they are all third world countries…hmm.
“Something’s not right about what I’m doing but I’m still doing it—living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling. The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
“The affinity and historical links among weaving, digital computing, and women figures centrally throughout cyberfeminist theory, most famously “A Cyborg Manifesto.” Silicon Valley business discourse created an archive of materials that represented Navajo women as “natural” cyborgs, indeed, as embodying nature itself using silicon as their medium. The cyberfeminist theorist Sadie Plant completes the circuit between weaving as indigenous practice and software production: “Textiles themselves are very literally the software linings of all technology… . it is their microprocesses which underlie it all: the spindle and the wheel used in spinning yarn are the basis of all later axles, wheels, and rotations; the interlaced threads of the loom compose the most abstract processes of fabrication.”37 The discourse about Fairchild’s Shiprock operation described Navajo women’s affinity for electronics manufacture as both reflecting and satisfying an intrinsic gendered and racialized drive toward intricacy, detail, and quality, and the women who performed this labor did so for the same reason that Indigenous Circuits | 935 women have performed factory labor for centuries—to survive. The liberal discourse of the seventies assuaged its conscience in consigning vulnerable populations like Native Americans to this type of labor by suturing the work itself to an emergent discourse of multiculturalism. How could this type of labor be exploitative when it was already so much like the “native” cultural production that Indians had done for centuries without pay, the original “free labor,” such as weaving blankets?”
“I know a sentence that is still more terrifying, more terribly ambiguous than “I am alone,” and it is, isolated from any other determining context, the sentence that would say to the other: “I am alone with you.” Meditate on the abyss of such a sentence: I am alone with you, with you I am alone, alone in all the world.”
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