Bhanu Kapil, Ban en Banlieue (2014)

"the project fails at every instant and you make a book out of that and I do"--

"an immigrant has a set of complex origins, is from else-where; the monster is made, on the other hand, from local mixtures of organic and inorganic materials..."

"I should have written the alien body as a set of fragments, a ghazal with an omega mouth and a healing cry; instead I went with historical fiction--"

"under what conditions is a birth not recognized as a birth? Answer: Ban. And from Ban: 'banlieues"

"both dead and never living"; "the part, that is, of life that is never given: an existence."

"What, for example, is born in England, but is never, not even on a cloud day, English?"

national belonging

charred remains of disposable bodies

permissible sexual violence

performance notes, "auto-sacrifice"

A woman gang raped/beaten to death in New Delhi in 2012, a militant antiracist activist Peach, killed in 1979 demonstration

Outlines, silhouettes, draws/redraws, fills with blood, fire, flowers

"the depleted, yet still livid mixture of materials that a race riot is made from"

"how does that energy of a performance mix with the energy of the memorial?"

"one thing next to another doesn't mean they touch"

"the loose genetics of what makes this street real ... sometimes there is a day and sometimes there is a day reduced to its symbolic elements."

The things that happen to bodies when they are not even recognized as bodies--caked dirt, ash, blood

*THE MATERIALS (Rich) (Remnants)

"I wanted to write a book that was like lying down" -- (Coultas--sitting?)

"A brown girl on the floor of the world"

"An organism that shares a membrane with other organisms is a false indicator of hybrid form"

"you can be hybrid and not share a body with anything else. Thus, the different parts of "Ban" do not touch. They never touch at all."