A Different Sort of Blowback
Forrest Hylton
Cocaine is a central commodity of the neoliberal age; so, too, its
re-processed form ("crack") for the desperately poor in de-industrialized
cities of the North and South Atlantic. First announced by Richard Nixon in
1971, the "War on Drugs" predates the rise of cocaine and crack by nearly a
decade, but in the 1980s and 90s the "War on Drugs" was redoubled in
response to the explosion of the cocaine business. It now ranks as the U.S.'s
longest-running military-police campaign. Thus if we look at cocaine as a
social hieroglyph-not as a thing, but as a complex relation between networks
and organizations of people, as well as between states and bureaucracies-we
may glimpse some of the distinguishing features of the contemporary world.
continues here:
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/11/express/a-different-sort-of-blowback
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