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Dissenting Voices of the Unwashed, Disobedient, Noncitizens, and Exiles in their Own Homes
Chen Chieh-jen
Are these dispatched workers not the new colonized slaves of bourgeois democracy and its internal colonialism? When empires that disseminate neoliberalism also try to guide people around the world in how to take action, while intentionally blurring the tremendous class disparity that separates citizen from citizen, is this not a “New Losheng Sanatorium,” one that uses labor flexibilization to implement an alternative form of exclusion under the guise of “freedom” and “democracy”? Now, however, the isolated and excluded are no longer just leprosy patients; they are everyday people forced to live in a neoliberal society.
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 5, 2017
Category
Film, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Health & Disease, Japan, East Asia, Police & Prisons