Imperial Debris Quotes

“Detroit, Leary writes, the storied birthplace of the United States's hi-tech, labor intensive, middle-class-creating industrial capitalism, “remains the Mecca of urban ruins,” its blighted baroque and modernist architecture captured in glossy coffee-table books and New York Times essays,”
― Ann Laura Stoler, Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination

“At least one challenge is not to imagine either “the postcolony” or the postcolonial imperium as replicas of earlier degradations or as the inadvertent, inactive leftovers of more violent colonial relations. It is rather to track how new de-formations and new forms of debris work on matter and mind to eat through people's resources and resiliencies as they embolden new political actors with indignant refusal, forging unanticipated, entangled, and empowered alliances.”
― Ann Laura Stoler, Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination