Civil-rights struggles mean that, for now, mainstream culture deems the overtly white-supremacist sadisms of Jim Crow impolite. Which leads to immense white resentment. Of course there are strategies aplenty to maintain racist power in this…Jason Barthel, a corporal in the Indiana Police with a sideline in clothing, promptly releases a t-shirt bearing the words ‘Breathe Easy: Don’t break the law’. ‘[P]lease understand’, he writes online, with palpable twinkle, ‘when we use the…
Eric Garner
historical · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Eric Garner appears in the course readings as a cipher for state violence and its rationalization within systems that claim legality and order. The excerpts invoke his death (suffocation during a police encounter in 2014) as a flashpoint for how racist state power persists through plausible deniability and blame-shifting—framed here through the cynical response of law enforcement deploying "Breathe Easy" merchandise that inverts his final words into victim-blaming. His case matters to Pandaemonium Architecture because it exposes how algorithmic governance, surveillance systems, and proceduralized control can launder historical racism into the language of neutrality and compliance.
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