Civilization annexes the excluded by making them speak their own disappearance
Evidence
Animals, like the dead, and so many others, have followed this uninterrupted process of annexation through extermination, which consists of liquidation, then of making the extinct species speak, of making them present the confession of their disappearance. Making animals speak, as one has made the insane, children, sex (Foucault) speak. This is even deluded in regard to animals, whose principle of uncertainty, which they have caused to weigh on men since the rupture in their alliance with men, resides in the fact that they do not speak. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 442
Categorization
- XREF: Recalls Foucault’s confession/examination thesis and the ‘repressive hypothesis’ — Baudrillard explicitly cites Foucault here; pairs with the earlier chapter’s reclusion logic. — connects to: Colonial discourse manufactures silence around colonized peoples’ precolonial civilizations. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 118; Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves; Colonial authority pre-emptively silences the colonized’s own testimony (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Colonial discourse manufactures silence around colonized peoples’ precolonial civilizations.
#exemplifies(0.85) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 118 - Colonial authority pre-emptively silences the colonized’s own testimony
#exemplifies(0.82) - Universalizing discourse silences the specific wounds of the colonized.
#expands(0.80) - The colonial field barred the colonized from speaking for themselves
#exemplifies(0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 571 - Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves
#expands(0.72)