#14: Shrouded in Darkness
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Salvage Editorial Collective
From Apartheid to Genocide: Perspectives #14
There are times when the necessity to sketch out the conjuncture is a particularly desolating task. This is one such.
Sophie Lewis
Some of my Best Enemies are Feminists
Their feminism(s) and ours. The femonationalist gambit, genocide as affirmative action, and the necessity of enmity.
Jamie Allinson & Sai Englert
The Enemy Trinity
One of our greatest shades acts Virgil to our Dante, leading us through the Middle East Inferno, limning the threats to Palestine and liberation.
Season Butler
Collages
Art.
Soheir Asaad & Riya Al’Sanah
Lessons from ’48
Interview. Resistance, repression, and political accommodation between the river and the sea. The view from ’48 Palestine since 7 October.
Arun Kundnani
Policing the Wastelands
Extract.
Avra Margariti
Precious Belongings
Fiction.
The Zetkin Collective
The Great Driving Right Show
In a world suffocating on exhaust fumes, the Right seeks to enlist us in their latest culture war: the scorched earth defense of automobility.
Sadie Lee
Skin Deep
Art.
Grace Lavery
Papers Please
What’s in a name? Bureaucratic recognition, biopolitical control, and the aesthetics of trans-citizenship.
Alexander Stoffel
Seductions of the Nation State
Mapping the genocidal fantasies of trans-exclusion onto the national ideal. Wounded attachments and the violent desires they arouse.
Ellen Hawley
Flight
Fiction.
Pearl Ahrens
How Accidental is an Accident?
If a cyclist is struck by a car and no one is around to hear, should we care? Shame on you for even asking.
Jesse Meadows
The Cult of the Cold Plunge
On the latest excrescence of the social industry. Recurrence, not disruption. This is old hat, and has its origins in social engineering past.
Avra Margariti
Cronemaidens on the Shelf
Fiction.
Alexander Billet
In and Against the Dream Factory
The work of art in the age of digital reproduction. Class war against the culture industry. Labour in LA continues to rattle its chains.
Devaka Gunawardena
The Extractive Turn
On the crisis of and in neoliberalism in Sri Lanka. The rapacious wing-spreading of the Moloch-State.
Avra Margariti
Girls Are Made Of
Fiction.
Alberto Toscano
Abolition and Communism
Abolitionism may not yet be communism, but any communism worth its name is and always must be abolitionist.
From This Issue
How Accidental is an Accident?
I used to think that a collision indicated there was something wrong in the road layout. I thought whenever someone got injured on the road, it would provoke an investigation. I imagined people from the council or the police would rush in with clipboards and resolve whatever it was in the road that had caused the collision.
Papers Please: Poignancy in the Age of State Surveillance
This piece appears in print in Salvage 14: Shrouded in Darkness. Issue 14 is available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and our subscribers have exclusive access to some online content, including all audio...
Policing the Wastelands
This piece appears in print in Salvage 14: Shrouded in Darkness. Issue 14 is available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and our subscribers have exclusive access to some online content, including all audio...
Seductions of the Nation-State: On Anti-Trans Feminism and Other Sexual Nationalisms
This piece appears in print in Salvage 14: Shrouded in Darkness. Issue 14 is available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and our subscribers have exclusive access to some online content, including all audio...
The Cult of the Cold Plunge
This piece appears in print in Salvage 14: Shrouded in Darkness. Issue 14 is available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and our subscribers have exclusive access to some online content, including all audio...
The Extractive Turn: The Question of State Form in Sri Lanka’s Conjuncture
This piece appears in print in Salvage 14: Shrouded in Darkness. Issue 14 is available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and our subscribers have exclusive access to some online content, including all audio...
In and Against the Dream Factory
This piece appears in print in Salvage 14: Shrouded in Darkness. Issue 14 is available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and our subscribers have exclusive access to some online content, including all audio...
Abolition Communism
This piece appears in print in Salvage 14: Shrouded in Darkness. Issue 14 is available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and our subscribers have exclusive access to some online content, including all audio...
The Enemy Trinity
The Palestinian Marxist Ghassan Kanafani, in his famous study of the Great Arab Revolt of 1936–9, and its defeat, theorised the regional and international character of the Palestinian struggle through the alliance of enemies it faced. Reflecting on the Palestinian uprising under the British Mandate, he wrote ‘between 1936 and 1939, the Palestinian revolutionary movement suffered a severe setback at the hands of three separate enemies’. This tripartite enemy constituted and remained ‘the principal threat’ to Palestinian liberation: ‘the local reactionary leadership; the regimes in the Arab states surrounding Palestine; and the imperialist-Zionist enemy’.
The Great Driving Right Show
Symbolically, affectively, and materially, the car is a ‘vehicle’ for the far right, channelling apolitical investments in the status quo into reactionary forms of anti-ecological politics. In this conjuncture, the car is a symbol of individual liberty, the nuclear family, and the ‘energy-secure’ nation. In a populist key, the car is ‘the people’.
From Apartheid to Genocide: Salvage Perspectives 14
It is no small offence to our piscine friends to say that the punditry and political class has the collective memory of a solitary goldfish in a tiny bowl that it mistakes for the wide ocean.
Some of my best enemies are feminists: on Zionist feminism
Historically speaking, Zionist feminism shares key characteristics of colonial feminisms of the nineteenth century.











