The police invention of humanity: Notes on the “thin blue line”
The police invention of humanity: Notes on the “thin blue line”
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警察对人性的发明：关于“细蓝线”的注释
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发表时间：
2020
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T. Wall
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这篇文章将警察作为一条“细蓝线”的思想，通过一场与野兽的文明和灭绝战争，讲述了人类发明警察的故事。因此，以“蓝色细线”的名义说话，就是把警察表述为保障或使所谓“人类”存在的核心内容成为可能的主要力量：自由、安全、财产、社会性、积累、法律、文明，甚至幸福。当前的项目与其说是细蓝线口号的历史，不如说是对其最基本前提的概念性素描和废奴主义批判：细蓝线的核心思想是，暴力国家特权的最常规模式——警察权力——总是被想象为文明的防御，这意味着“人类物种”。换句话说，用西尔维娅·温特（Sylvia Wynter）的话来说，细蓝线最好被理解为对一种特定类型的人类或“人”的辩护，这种类型“过度代表自己，仿佛它就是人类本身”。但重要的是，细蓝线阐明了这个发明人类的警察项目总是不完整的，不安全的，不稳定的。当然，它必须永远是不完整的，因为正是由于它无法完全根除兽性的痕迹，警察才有权以人类的名义进行无休止的战争。作为一种普通紧急情况的话语，细蓝线成为了迪伦·瓦莱登（Diren Valayden）所描述的“种族化”的表达，或殖民资产阶级对人类将回归暴力本性的焦虑。对这条蓝色细线的批评促使人们思考，成为人类的幻想和失败是如何赋予警察一切生命的，包括警察项目核心的种族暴力。
This article unpacks the idea of police as a “thin blue line” as narrating a story about the police invention of the human through a civilizing and exterminating war against beasts. To speak in the name of the “thin blue line,” then, is to articulate the police as the primary force which secures, or makes possible, all the things said to be at the core of “human” existence: liberty, security, property, sociality, accumulation, law, civility, and even happiness. The current project is less a history of the thin blue line slogan than a more conceptually grounded sketch, and abolitionist critique, of its most basic premises: the idea at the heart of thin blue line is that the most routine mode of violent state prerogative—the police power—is imagined as always a defense of civilization, which at once means the “human species.” In other words, thin blue line, to use a formulation from Sylvia Wynter, is best understood as a defense of a particular genre of the human, or “Man,” that “overrepresents itself as if it were the human itself.” But importantly, thin blue line articulates this police project of inventing the human as always incomplete, insecure, and unstable. Of course, it must always be incomplete, because it is through its inability to fully eradicate the bestial trace that police claim a license to endless war in the name of humanity. As a discourse of ordinary emergency, thin blue line becomes an expression of what Diren Valayden outlines as “racial feralization,” or the colonial bourgeois anxiety that humanity will regress back into a violent nature. A critique of the thin blue line encourages a consideration of how fantasies and failures of becoming human animate all things police, including the racialized violence at the heart of the police project.
全人类的敌人：合法暴力的虚构
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10.26530/oapen_625275
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2016
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Schillings
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Schillings