Raj Patel
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157 appearances
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first heard May 2022
last heard May 2022
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You have to have a cosmology, a series of stories that tell you that this thing is.
In fact, a thing.
It's not a human being.
It may look like a human being, but in fact it isn't Christian, and so therefore it isn't quite possessed of the same rights as a proper human being.
Or this human being doesn't own property, and so it's on its way to being a human being, but until it owns stuff, it's not really entitled to the same kinds of privileges.
Or this human being is a woman and therefore doesn't have any place in the public sphere and must remain in this newly created sort of private sphere of the household.
So the history of capitalism is
A history of narratives, and it's a history of violent narratives, and of the kinds of developments of police forces in order to enforce those narratives.
You see the intentional destruction of other ways of knowing how humans fit into the web of life and what our stories are with relation to other beings.
So the story that Rupert was just telling: the sort of heartbreaking stories of someone who has lived as a white working class person exposed.
To the horrors of industrial chemistry, and yet their body is the site of victimhood, and therefore, to some extent, they're to blame.
Whereas we never hear the narratives of how it is that colonial capitalism predisposed and subjected her body to the kinds of insults that would generate these kinds of mysterious inflammations.
The exposome is the sum total of exposures, technically from conception on, but actually shaped by the world that exists before you are conceived, that arcs through your life, that influences the extent to which you will be healthy or be unwell.
And the idea of the exposome is a way of looking at histories.
It's a way of looking at structures of power around individual bodies and to understand.
How stories matter in that interaction.
Because we're talking about the exposome in relation to inflammation.
And again, inflammation is the body's response to damage or the threat of damage.
The threat of damage is a narrative phenomenon.
When you're in your house and there is a knock at the door from a government employee, that can be narrated a number of different ways.
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