The Performance of Becoming HumanThe Performance of Becoming Human

Borzutzky returns to confront the various ways nation-states and their bureaucracies absorb and destroy communities and economies. To become human is to navigate borders, including the fuzzy borders of institutions, the economies of privatization, overdevelopment, and underdevelopment, under which humans endure state-sanctioned and systemic abuses in cities, villages, deserts. Borzutzky adds another chapter to a growing and important compendium of work that asks what it means to a be both a unitedstatesian and a globalized subject whose body is "shared between the earth, the state, and the bank."