what remains
a notebook
The multiple scales at which borders operate in settler colonial states are, by design, characterized by excess of sovereignty, death, and violence.
-- Ana Ramos Zayas (2022)
Everyone who outran the flames that morning, dodging flying embers and bullets that ricocheted from stashes of ammo, might have kept on running.
-- Mark Arax (2023)
Breathing bodies need air, or oxygen, to live, inasmuch as weaponisations of air need, in order to remain hostile, coercive or lethal towards the body, an entity fundamentally reliant on what remains in its aerial proximity.
-- Mikko Joronen (2023)
Nota bene: I love thinking about this previous sentence, but I'm convinced it remains (no pun intended, haha...) grammatically challenged and confusing. In the last clause, it's not clear what "entity" it refers to, which, it had stated at the outset, the weaponization of air needs. Or perhaps the sentence is missing a comma after entity or a noun or pronoun after "need." That said, "what remains" in the air or in the latent matter of a bomb is a useful prompt. But I assume that what the author refers to is the usefulness of the same proximate oxygen to weapons and breathing. (Via: Adam Levy)
Tunnel warfare tends to lessen many advantages a stronger, more advanced attacker might otherwise expect – and to favor the defenders hidden underground.
-- Brian Glyn Williams (2023)
Misuse is everything in a world of environmental catastrophe.
-- Matteo Mastrandrea (2023)
+ a podcast I'm listening to: The Wall St. Journal on a BP refinery explosion in Oregon, Ohio and two siblings who passed within the forces of fossil capitalism, and what do ends of life signify to the survival of oil?
– j.a.h. | contact me at: javier at berkeley dot edu | https://lnk.bio/jah