Our freedom is interdependent. Prisons — indefinite detention, parole, concentration camps — exist inasmuch as we allow them to. There is no doubt that concentration camps are in operation on US soil once again.
"Dehumanization is no excess or exception it is the very premise of the American prison."**
Trump’s election win sends private prisons stocks soaring as investors anticipate hard crackdown on migration. His pledge to crack down hard on mass migration promises to mean big business for private prisons. Fortune
Jesse Krimes: At the MET
Apokaluptein:16389067 was
conceived and executed within federal prison. The title references the
Greek origin of the word apocalypse meaning to ‘uncover, reveal;' an
event involving destruction or damage on a catastrophic scale; the
numbers reference Krimes' Federal Bureau of Prisons identification
number. He smuggled the contraband works through the Federal Bureau of
Prisons and the United States Postal Service, piece by piece, over a
period of three years, resulting in a forced Exquisite Corpse with
himself. The resulting work is a series of 39 disembodied prison sheets
sutured together, making up a collective installation as vast as the
history and timeline represented over his seventy-month absence.Apokaluptein:16389067Marking Time
**Laura K. Wallace on "The Prison & the American Imagination"
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