“It ends with love, exchange, fellowship. It ends as it begins, in motion, in between various modes of being
and belonging, and on the way to new economies of giving, taking, being with and for. It ends with a ride on
the way to another place altogether”*
AS BLOOD FLOWS
This Placement is not displacement
This Placement stands for itself as well as for others
This Placement aknowledges the various defaults of origins
This Placement splits into two to cure the division between opposite struggles
This Placement is situationist as well as universalist
This Placement ditributes the blood in our hands
This Placement influxes stuck systems of value by eliminating intermediators.
This Placement referes to precolonial history **
to deploy strategies of care.
50% for the artist
50% for the local resistance
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*Halberstein, Jack, introduction text for THE UNDERCOMMONS, FUGITIVE PLANNING & BLACK
STUDY, Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, p.01, Minor Compositions, 2013
**at this point it is crucial to mention and aknowledge the revisionary discourse that such historical constructs are undergoing but ill like to set an argument by citing Ruben Mendoza in his Aztec Militarianism and blood sacrifice article: “This chapter is by no means intended to constitute the definitive treatment for considerations of Mexica ritual violence and bloodshed, […] . Rather, my intention remains to move the debate away from the simplistic question of whether Amerindians engaged in religious violence and cannibalism to the deeper question of why any human group would have adopted ritual sacrifice and antropophagy on a monumental scale.”
G. Mendoza, Rubén, Aztec Militarism and blood sacrifice: the archaeology and ideology of ritual violence, p.53, university of arizona Press, 2007
