González-Ruibal evocatively described a “time of agony” for contemporary ruins between their abandonment, destruction, or incorporation into some formalized heritage regime. Agonal time often escapes recognition as socially meaningful, when in reality it can be a time of deregulated social activity as well as degradation within and beyond the full control of human counterparts. This figuration of the time of agony strikingly describes an aligned ruination encountered during the course of ethnographic fieldwork among local-level officials in the US Southwest tasked with the postmortem care of tens or hundreds or thousands of undocumented migrants in their county jurisdictions who needlessly die as a result of federal border enforcement policy. These officials operate largely without federal funding, regulating standards, or oversight for this task. This time of agony similarly escapes attention as a site of negotiation, presupposed as a site of violence (merited, emphatically), but the affective reverberations and possibilities are ignored within the ruination and ruined lives officials encounter and attempt to rationalize within the scope of their normal responsibilities. In pursuing the framing of ruination, I foreground abjection, traumatic rupture, and possibility found.

中文翻译：

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痛苦之时

González-Ruibal 令人回味地描述了当代废墟在被遗弃、破坏或纳入某些正式的遗产制度之间的“痛苦时期”。濒临灭绝的时间通常无法被认为具有社会意义，而实际上它可能是社会活动放松管制的时期，以及在人类同行完全控制范围内和之外的退化时期。这种痛苦时间的描述惊人地描述了美国西南部地方级官员在人种学实地调查过程中遇到的一致破坏，他们的任务是在其县辖区对数十、数百或数千名无证移民进行死后护理，这些移民不必要地死于联邦边境执法政策的结果。这些官员在很大程度上没有联邦资金、监管标准或对这项任务的监督。这种痛苦的时刻同样作为谈判的场所，被假定为暴力的场所（值得，强调）而逃脱了关注，但在官员遭遇的毁灭和毁灭的生活中，情感的回响和可能性被忽略了，并试图在他们的范围内合理化。正常的职责。在追求毁灭的框架中，我强调了落魄、创伤性破裂和发现的可能性。