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Colonial aphasia is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

Colonialism is not hegemonic, all-encompassing and all-powerful, but rather, uneven, imperfect, and even indifferent knowledge-acquiring machines.

Colonialism is undergirded by a set of political rationalities that make viable, enduring, and relevant certain questions and distinctions, questions and distinctions such as who was colonizer and who was colonized, or what the difference is between metropolitan and colonial policy was.

Comparison is not a methodological problem, but a historical object with changing stakes for polities and their bureaucratic apparatuses.

Comparison is not only a methodological problem. It is also a historical object which can be inquired into.

Content in the archival form is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

The Emotional economy of sexuality is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

Imperial debris is the material remnants of accreditive disasters or various forms of 'ruination'.

An Imperial formation is a repository of vulnerabilities that lasts longer than the political structures that produced them.

Imperial ruination is the ongoing, degrading domination that lays waste to certain peoples, relations, and things.

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