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Disaster Nationalism: Pornonationalism

Note: This post has been put behind a wall with a warning by Blogger. It is excerpts from a legally-published book. Words such pornonationalism, sex, sexual, pornography are used in context. There not a single pronographic image or video. The post is will be reviewed by Blogger. ___________ By Richard Seymour Wherever disaster nationalism erupts, it produces a pornography of sexual evil: ‘porno-nationalism’, as Dibyesh Anand calls it. It fantasises about women who are ‘disgusting vile parasites’ (among the milder specimens of incel misogyny), duplicitous Muslims luring Hindu girls into their religion (the Hindu nationalist fear of ‘love jihad’), and elite child sex trafficking ‘across continents, through the Vatican, and underneath the cover of charities and child protective services’ (as a QAnon bestseller put it). The nation, being reproduced through sex, always recruits sexuality. In its rise during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, nationalism helped establish what Christoph...