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Barbarous Hordes, Brutal Elites: The Traumatic Structure of Right-Wing Populism
Steffen Krüger
All across the hoaxmap, the refugees’ barbarity is characterized by a sexuality that careens between the extremely oral and anal, i.e., the totally uninhibited and the hysterically controlled. The result is that a perverse notion of innocence emerges: these fantasy-foreigners are a force of nature and, as such, they simply cannot be blamed in any conventional sense for their wrongdoings. They are beyond the reach of rationality. They cannot be reasoned with; they can only be stopped by other means. This putative irresponsibility of the refugees is crucial, because it allows for the entire responsibility for their imaginary crimes to be placed at the feet of the elites.
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 13, 2017
Category
Populism, Migration & Immigration, Borders & Frontiers
Subjects
Xenophobia, Trauma