Abstract:

This brief response to Neel Ahuja’s “Animal Death as National Debility” focuses on his analysis of the intersections of speciesism, racism, and ableism in Syrian war narratives. Ahuja insightfully untangles a media-driven, over-determined portrayal of the Syrian uprisings that began in 2011, as well as the subsequent war that was framed as one of the world’s first “climate wars.” The appropriation of war terminology in the framing of “climate wars” is a liberalization of the violence of the Syrian uprisings and the many conduits of its brutal repression, a ventriloquizing of atmospherics of violence on which some types of causal trajectories surface or sublimate others.

摘要：

对尼尔·阿胡贾（Neel Ahuja）的“动物死亡作为民族能力的死亡”的简短回应，集中在他对叙利亚战争叙事中种族主义，种族主义和能力主义交叉点的分析。Ahuja深刻地洞悉了媒体驱动的，对2011年开始的叙利亚起义以及随后的战争（被称为世界上第一场“气候战争”）的过分确定的刻画。在“气候战争”框架中使用战争术语是对叙利亚起义的暴力行为及其野蛮镇压的许多渠道的自由化，对暴力气氛的讽刺，某些类型的因果轨迹在表面上升华或升华了。