{"id":357,"date":"2023-11-05T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T15:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/?p=357"},"modified":"2023-11-05T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T15:54:16","slug":"moores-conceptualizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/2023\/11\/05\/moores-conceptualizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore\u2019s conceptualizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Capitalism is an agent of colonialism. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People are conceptualized as waste, inorder to justify their oppression. They are turned into objects so that the moral consideration owed to them is ceased. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Capitalism upholds colonial thought and colonial violence. It twists us into something inhuman. Under capitalism people become objects of waste. I think people might be able to fit into every one of Moore\u2019s conceptualizations. But these 3 categorizations stood out to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Waste as abject:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">abject posits waste as something that is expelled from the social body in order to shore up the boundaries that divide that which belongs from that which does not.\u201d Positioning a people as some sort of disease, a virus that must be eradicated, cleansed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Waste as <\/b><b>disorder and matter out of place:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cwhat the media presented along the US-Mexico border during 1991\u20131994 was an extreme portrait of \u2018\u2018\u2018matter out of place\u2019\u2019 implicitly borne by the movement of people out of place: Mexican immigrants\u201d&#8230; \u201cit is impossible to dismiss the associations drawn between self-soiling Mexicans, mired in their own excrement, and the larger projection of the expanding border, seeping like a swamped septic system\u2019s drainage field across the greater American landscape.\u201d Those in power create a story, a theater. They put on a show, none of what they show us or tell us is real. They have forced migrants into this role.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Waste as resource:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People are used for their labor, for their land, for their children. People are thought of in terms of what they can provide to an empire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitalism is an agent of colonialism. People are conceptualized as waste, inorder to justify their oppression. They are turned into objects so that the moral consideration owed to them is ceased. Capitalism upholds colonial thought and colonial violence. It twists us into something inhuman. Under capitalism people become objects of waste. I think people might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conceptualizing-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}