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Loudreaders on While They Sleep

24 June, 2021

A post-hurricane manifesto, Salas Rivera’s While They Sleep: Under the Bed is Another Country constructs a critique of necropolitics, necrocapitalism, coloniality, oppression, and other imaginaries. The main text in English addresses the US empire and its necropolitical implications on its colonial subjects, while the footnotes, in Spanish, propose answers as coming from its colony in Puerto Rico.

Loudreaders on While They Sleep

A post-hurricane manifesto, Salas Rivera’s While They Sleep: Under the Bed is Another Country constructs a critique of necropolitics, necrocapitalism, coloniality, oppression, and other imaginaries. The main text in English addresses the US empire and its necropolitical implications on its colonial subjects, while the footnotes, in Spanish, propose answers as coming from its colony in Puerto R...