✉️ : art is inherently political. attempting to compartmentalise and process recent events through the language of sociology, media studies + more.

• incredibly tempting to make a video essay/analysis of the fallacy of neutrality…thinking

on neutrality.

• genocide, neutrality and the university sector +
  • such silence is not neutral; it reflects alignment with settler-colonial logics that erase Palestinian lives and struggles, while masking complicity under the guise of institutional detachment. indeed, both silence and claims to institutional neutrality are important mechanisms for maintaining the status quo, an evasion of responsibility that enables institutions to profit from and perpetuate the systems of violence they should seek to critique.
  • neutrality, in these instances, although projected as a marker of liberal consistency, is a political choice informed by which narratives and populations are deemed worthy.
    • the emphasis on balance relies on a misleading premise: that the Palestinian struggle is a conflict between two relatively equal parties, both with legitimate grievances, that can be mediated through dialogue. this framing is deeply problematic. it abstracts the issue from its historical and political context, reducing it to a cultural or interpersonal dispute.
      • ⤷ adopting language of settler colonialism insinuates a power asymmetry