Josh Begley published a riveting article in The Intercept, on October 26, 2016, which opens with a stunning short video by Begley himself in partnership with Field of Vision.
The video is an aerial view tracking the complex, diverse, and blurring 3,145 km (1,954 miles) terrain that makes up the “border” between Mexico-United States. Set to an eerie atmospheric soundscape, the video has a mesmerizing and dizzying effect, that compounds the futile notion of establishing a “wall” between these Nation-state.
A passage from Anssi Paasi's chapter Borderless worlds and beyond: challenging the state-centric cartographies, in “Borderless Worlds for Whom? Ethics, Moralities and Mobilities”, comes to mind:
“Of course, states have gradually asserted rigid jurisdiction beyond their borders and partly unbundled sovereignty from territoriality. As Sassen (2005, p. 535) observes, ‘While the exclusive territorial authority of the state remains prevalent, the constitutive regimes are today less absolute than they were once meant to be.’ Respectively, state-centred border regimes – whether open or closed – ‘remain foundational elements in our geopolity, but they coexist with a variety of other bordering dynamics and capabilities’ (p. 535). From this angle, borders partly represent a permanent ‘state of exception’ that renders possible the ‘normalized’ biopolitical control and governance inside the territorial borders of the state (cf. Salter, 2008, p. 365). Border regimes are, as King (2016, p. 2) notes, productive.”(p. 25)
You can read Josh Begley's the brilliant article “Best of Luck with the Wall”, here:
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