Consciousness

In this chapter, I focus on the way settler perceive their predicament and on a number of paranoiac dispositions characterising the settler colonial situation. This chapter also explores the possibility of a Lacanian (imaginary-symbolic-real) interpretation of settler colonial phenomena. First, there is an imaginary spectacle, an ordered community working hard and living peacefully Little House in the Prairie -style. Then, there is the symbolic and ideological backdrop: a moral and regenerative world that supposedly epitomises settler traditions (e.g., the “frontier”, the “outback”, the “backblocks”, and so on). Finally, there is the real: expanding capitalist orders associated with the need to resettle a growing number of people. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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