White Capitalist Patriarchy — Informatics of Domination

This entry reflects on the militarized history of the transpacific in relation to US imperial conceptualizations of it as a geographic space (Indo-Pacific, Asia-Pacific). It cautions that these histories tend to overwrite such descriptions of the Pacific, arguing that Pacific histories are concentric, discontinuous, contradictory, antidialectical. Exponential times and spaces cross, disrupt, propel, and re-create one another. Empires have been terrorized by this overwhelming excess even as they feel themselves seduced by sensuous disorientation.