“Racializing assemblages translate the lacerations left on the captive body by apparatuses of political violence to a domain rooted in the visual truth-value accorded to quasi-biological distinctions between different human groupings. Thus, rather than entering a clearing zone of indistinction, we are thrown into the vortex of hierarchical indicators: racializing assemblages. In the absence of kin, family, gender, belonging, language, personhood, property, and official records, among many other factors, what remains is the flesh, the living, speaking, thinking, feeling, and imagining flesh: the ether that holds together the world of Man while at the same time forming the condition of possibility for this world’s demise. It’s the end of the world — don’t you know that yet?” FreedomRaceViolenceHumanFlesh Book:Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human Source: Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human