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J. Halberstam "Imagined Violence" (2001) - Coggle Diagram
J. Halberstam "Imagined Violence" (2001)
WHat is the problem?
patterns of uni-directional violence
"it is time either to arm the girls and children of color or else acknowledge publically that there are some structural problems with the ways we raise, teach, and empower white boys" (246)--when white boys aren't getting what they feel they deserve, they enact violence
What is the methodology?
Postmodern theory and questions of epistemology
Judith Butler's idea of fantasy and the real
"Postmodernism invites new and different conceptions of violent resistance and its representations." (249) " fear, the order, the nerves are all produced precisely as illusions, fantasies that govern and discipline the self" (249)--this is about SYSTEMS and PATTERNS of violence and fear
"unsanctioned violences committed by subordinate groups upon powerful white men. The relationship between imagined violence and "real" violence is unclear, contested, negotiable, unstable, and radically unpredictable; and yet, imagined and real violence is not simply a binary formulation. pg 247" -- this is about rage from "subordinate groups" aka folks who have been minoritized within hegemonic systems (systems of normalcy);
what is the benefit or what happens when we recognize and theorize violence coming from the margins against straight white men in power? --this allows us to redirect the conversation and preconceived notions of where violence comes from (troubles that only men can commit violence) and
imagined and real violence are not a binary formulation?-- there are "blurred lines"; "we cannot predict what action representations will give rise to" (247)--we don't know how people will interpret or react; making room for subjective experiences.
this upsets linear narratives of violent narratives and real life violence: (246) violent video games cause violence (Columbine and Jonesboro). Instead something might change if we rethinkg white men's bodies as the subject of violence?
What is his archive/body of examples?
Ice-T "Cop Killer"
Thelma and Louise
making rapists afraid by asking "what if" their victim was packing heat? (251)--it shifts the pattern of violence and maybe makes men think twice? "
HIV/AIDS
What's our way out/solution?
what is the benefit or what do we accomplish by redirecting the violence?
"We have to be able to imagine violence, and our violence needs to be imaginable because the power of fantasy is not to represent but to destabtlize the reaL Imagined violence docs not necessarily stop men from rap- ing women, but it might make a man tl1ink twice about whether a woman is go- ing to blow him away."--thinking about consequences and power dynamics
" imagined violences challenge powerful
white heterosexual masculinity and create a cultural coalition of postmodern
terror. " (264)
How does consequence work here with imagined violence
potential limitations (i.e. update the argument to account for the capitol insurrection and discourses of victimhood and "rights")