**Links to**: [[Terror]], [[The State]], [[Undercommons]], [[Colonialoscopy]], [[Domination]], [[Malignant normality]], [[Affect alien]], [[Refusal]]. ..._violence_ _perpetrated under_ _the rubric of pleasure,_ _paternalism and_ _property._ S. V. Hartman, _Scenes of Subjection_: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. (Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 4. %% ### Notes ### Refusing the call to order “Citing Gayatri Spivak, Moten and Harney call this refusal the “first right” and it is a game-changing kind of refusal in that it signals the refusal of the choices as offered. We can understand this refusal in terms that Chandan Reddy lays out in _Freedom With Violence_ (2011) – for Reddy, gay marriage is the option that cannot be opposed in the ballot box. While we can circulate multiple critiques of gay marriage in terms of its institutionalization of intimacy, when you arrive at the ballot box, pen in hand, you only get to check “yes” or “no” and the no, in this case, could be more damning than the yes. **And so, you must refuse the choice as offered**.” p. 8 the undercommons, my emphasis How about we all just make some music _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ **See also**: