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Tannya Islas- Toxicity through Chaos and Order

I really appreciated the image and its description for how it described the toxicity and its structural forms/violences, particularly McGrath's nod to the juxtaposition between the appearance of order vs the existence of choas. I think this tension, in both its theoretical and visual context, provides an entryway to discuss how toxicity works in late industrialism. When looking at this image I am reminded primarily of theories of statehood and statepractice. Whether its Weber's analysis of bureaucracy, Foucault's governmentality, Mitchell's state effects, Ferguson's anti-politics, Scott's "seeing like a state," or even Hobbe's leviathan we are reminded of the ways in which order, practice, omnicience, and discipline is manufanctured as a way to establish statehood and state power. But if these theories and those who have put these theories into practice have showed us anything it is often that these forms of practice crumble, erode, and break down into numerous forms of violence. Often times, the violence and choas may even be a result of maintaning "state order." In all, I think what this image does well is reflect the tensions, downfalls, and even successes of the theoretical frameworks we currently employ to think about order and chaos. Additionally, it also makes me wonder: In what contexts scholars usually mobilize order and choas as analytics? What synonyms can we come up with for order and chaos? 

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