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On Hate, its Objects, and the Poetics of Sexuality
New article by George Paul Meiu
What is hate? How are the objects formed towards which it is directed? And why do sex and sexuality figure so centrally in defining the essential Otherness of various objects of hate in the contemporary world order? In this essay, George Paul Meiu seeks less a set of firm answers to these questions. Instead, he proposes an exercise in the ethnographic imagination—a way to begin addressing them in more nuanced ways. Such an approach shall help us understand better how hate and its targets emerge and possibly also formulate different critiques of social inequalities premised on hate.