@article{Madörin_2022, title={Fungibility at the border: selfies, proxies, and (faux) self-representations in the European border regime}, volume={11}, url={https://globalmediajournal.de/index.php/gmj/article/view/212}, DOI={10.22032/dbt.51030}, abstractNote={<p><span id="page283R_mcid22" class="markedContent"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 202.833px; top: 559.033px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.15536);" role="presentation">The article argues that the (new) media</span> <span dir="ltr" style="left: 509.317px; top: 559.033px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.15138);" role="presentation">landscape of the European border regime re</span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 118.24px; top: 580.833px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.11982);" role="presentation">hearses colonial and slavocratic tropes often excised from canonical narratives of Fortress Europe,</span> <span dir="ltr" style="left: 118.24px; top: 602.633px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.08764);" role="presentation">namely the fungibility of the other’s body and self. By discussing examples of (feigned) refugee self</span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 844.167px; top: 602.633px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif;" role="presentation">-</span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 118.24px; top: 624.433px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.14925);" role="presentation">representati</span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 207.233px; top: 624.433px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.11344);" role="presentation">on, I demonstrate how the ostensible oppositionality of race and racial thinking (primi</span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 118.24px; top: 646.233px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.15853);" role="presentation">tive past) and technology (modern future) fundamentally erodes in the European border regime</span> <span dir="ltr" style="left: 118.24px; top: 668.033px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.14731);" role="presentation">while contributing to the further erasure of those most harshly targeted by</span> <span dir="ltr" style="left: 686.767px; top: 668.033px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.12179);" role="presentation">it. The examined self</span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 844.167px; top: 668.033px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif;" role="presentation">-</span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 118.24px; top: 689.833px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.09534);" role="presentation">representations are caught in fungibility as the gaze of</span> <span dir="ltr" style="left: 516.317px; top: 689.833px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.10444);" role="presentation">the other is circumvented by a proxy, institut</span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 118.24px; top: 711.667px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.1182);" role="presentation">ing a relation of substitution that inherently depends on the erasure of the racialized subject for the </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 118.24px; top: 733.267px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.10247);" role="presentation">purpose of white enjoyment.</span></span></p>}, number={2}, journal={Global Media Journal - German Edition}, author={Madörin, Anouk}, year={2022}, month={Feb.} }