Chemical and radiological violence becomes invisible cellular drama in poor bodies

Evidence

In this book, I have sought to address our inattention to calamities that are slow and long lasting, calamities that patiently dispense their devastation while remaining outside our flickering attention spans—and outside the purview of a spectacle-driven corporate media. The insidious workings of slow violence derive largely from the unequal attention given to spectacular and unspectacular time. In an age that venerates instant spectacle, slow violence is deficient in the recognizable special effects that fill movie theaters and boost ratings on TV. Chemical and radiological violence, for example, is driven inward, somatized into cellular dramas of mutation that—particularly in the bodies of the poor—remain largely unobserved, undiagnosed, and untreated. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 28

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supports the extraction strand of eco-justice and parallels Soundscape’s claim that chronic noise is somatized — harm driven inward into bodies below the threshold of visibility.
• XREF: connects to: Depicting ecological harm through silenced absence makes invisible slow violence sensually present — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 172; Civilization is the project of rendering violence invisible and virtual — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 234; Unreckoned medical violence left marginalized communities vulnerable to pandemic misinformation — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 254 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Depicting ecological harm through silenced absence makes invisible slow violence sensually present #corroborates (0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 172
• Environmental harm inscribes itself visibly on children’s and workers’ bodies #exemplifies (0.82) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1108
• Unreckoned medical violence left marginalized communities vulnerable to pandemic misinformation #corroborates (0.78) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 254
• Centuries of oppression produce physiological violence in the colonized #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 71
• Civilization is the project of rendering violence invisible and virtual #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 234
• The civilizing process makes violence invisible rather than eliminating it #corroborates (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 285