Dylan Robinson: "Hey you there!: Hailing Indigenous Resurgence and Settler Subjectivity"

Ethnomusicology lecture: Dylan Robinson (UBC).

"Hey you there!: Hailing Indigenous Resurgence and Settler Subjectivity"

Abstract:
Althusser's infamous scene of interpellation features a police officer hailing (shouting? yelling? stern-toned enunciating?). In turning toward the call "Hey you there!", Althusser claims, that we are constituted as subjects. In this example, we are presented with a figure of the state commanding attention through a singular call. Yet subjectivity is not constituted alone through a singular address. We are called and re-called; we refuse the call (stop calling stop calling...) and are whispered to by ideology-or ideological state apparatuses, in Althusser's terms-by the every day, by the minute, by the near- and far-perceptible. How, in this swarm of calls, might we understand the formation of settler subjectivity? Relatedly, how do we feel the hail of Indigenous resurgence?

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