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Be it resolved that, as hagiographic statues standing guard over public space is an architectural policing of affect derived from imperial Rome through the antiquity-fetishizing construction of an ahistorical whiteness, fuck it, let's just tear em all down
Statues are imperial zombie cops, put their asses back in their tombs where they belong.
You: *sobbing through tears* "please stop... you can't just call every statue a zombie cop concretizing the practices of imperial control and framing public space through by patriarchal governance"
Me: *points at statue* "also the whiteness of marble statues is ahistorical"
Me: *points at statue* "also the whiteness of marble statues is ahistorical"
I made this thread sound like a joke because even though I'm pretty convinced by my own argument, I'm too lazy to actually do the work of substantiating it with the necessary research
I mean, case closed
who was it that said when they invented ships, they invented the shipwreck? anyway, thank you to statues for giving us the opposite of "erecting a statue"
no, really, though, who said that, I can't remember. it's a good line.
