Social Murder in Action: Public Utilities in the Burn Down

I want to discuss the rolling blackouts that Evergy – the local electrical utility – engaged in during the President's Day Arctic Vortex, and how it constitutes social murder. While the situation in Missouri and Kansas is nowhere near the level of things in Texas, which produced a number of dramatic photographs (and which is dismissed by many because Texas went red, something that many people worst-served by the state aren’t responsible for,) it was still awful.

Political, Commentary, Written by: CameronCameron SummersFebruary 17, 2021Local, Politics, Public Utilities, Social Murder, climate changeComment

Memento Mori: On Social Murder

Social murder is, essentially, the creation of widespread death by making the conditions of continued survival inaccessible through social means. It is the use of laws, rules, and bureaucracy to “put your death in the passive voice.”

Commentary, Written by: CameronCameron SummersSeptember 9, 2020Postscript on Societies of Control, Social Murder, Mercy Baguma, Grenfell Tower Fire, HIV/AIDS, Huey Newton, Covid-19, C. Everett KoopComment