Xenophobia, racial discrimination, unnatural hatreds manufactured or ramped up in the pursuit of political ends - this is one of the more despicable tools used by capitalism's puppet masters. In another time or another place, another situation, this could be me or you or our children or parents. Divide and conquer, divide and rule. Why? Aren't we all just human beings?
JS
Many years before the first clouds of the crisis would hover over the greek skies, amidst greek society’s most glorious of moments and its most mundane of days, the lives and labour of migrants would be faced with their meticulous devaluation.
For
them, the crisis has by now come of age. Yet despite and against
shallow journalistic interpretations, there is nothing humanitarian
about it. This is because for them, the crisis was from the upstart
orchestrated politically, socially and militarily. In this way, the
discourse about racism in crisis-ridden Greece merely obfuscates and
comes in handy, for it obscures exactly how structural this devaluation
had been for the development of the Greek state in itself, as well as
for the self-perception of Greek society.
Yet
the crisis knows how to twist meanings too. Today, migrants are accused
of the very decline of the Greek edifice. And within this twisted
world, their devaluation takes on a more offensive and, at the same
time, a more legitimate form. Impossible Biographies, as part of the research project The City at a Time of Crisis,
bears witness to this offensive. Today, just like yesterday, the
devalued lives of migrants shall remind us how it is to live and die
within an enforced anonymity and invisibility. How it is to live a life
whose biography is impossible.
(The latest short documentary by
the ‘City at a Time of Crisis’ research project portrays the harrowing
plight of Greece’s besieged migrant community.
vimeo here
info from here
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