Ancestral claims: negative accumulation,deep implicancy & the case for general emancipation

Abstract

This is an initial mapping of the elements that must be in place for a discursive presentation of current global catastrophes–climate crisis, migration, pandemics, and criminalization–that generates a political response rather than the apathy and cruelty that abounds. The focus is on the intuitive, where, to sense with ‘the body’ and with ‘the mind’ are indistinguishable; where sensation, intuition, imagination come together. The pivotal question is how to address the effects of colonial, and racial subjugation without activating the Kantian categorial force, that the racial yields as a modern construct. The racial effectively nullifies the juridical-economic as the site to address how the others of Europe and their territories fare in today’s global economy. As a response to what that question demands, I speculate on the sense of the ancestral, as in the basic quantic components of all that exists and have been around for billions year, to highlight the fact that inseparability exists not at the level of the molecule but in the constitutive (elemental) particles, which are continuously recycled through transduction, transition, and transformation.