Disappearing the Cofounders: The Story of Imagine, a Language School in Xinjiang

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Title	Disappearing the Cofounders
Subtitle	The Story of Imagine, a Language School in Xinjiang
Contributor	M█████ (author)
Contributor	Darren Byler(author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.53288/0466.1.05
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/redacted-writing-in-the-negative-space-of-the-state/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyright	M█████, Darren Byler
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2024-10-27
Long abstract	This short essay tells the stories of how two of our mutual Uyghur friends have disappeared into the Xinjiang "reeducation" system over the past few years. Taking up a redaction practice that we liken to skillful revelation of skillful concealment—a definition of magic coined by anthropologist Michael Taussig—we produced a narrative about our friendships suffused with state power and the allure of a blank signifier. Thinking about this narrative in relation to a 1985 Uyghur novella titled “Classmates,” written from the perspective of a young Uyghur man as he is released following ten years of “reeducation through hard labor,” produced another revelation: in the midst of extreme social violence, daring to think and imagine offers a form of survival and risk. Writing the redacted nonfiction stories of our friends lives while thinking about the fictional novella placed us in dialogue with a state that appears to be simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, devouring all of life. It also allows for a more intimate form of magic, a way for us to remain in relation with our friends and for them to remain, at least partially, the authors of their own stories.
Page range	pp. 69–78
Print length	10 pages
Language	English (Original)
Keywords	friendship storytelling concealment concealment Uyghur Xinjiang China

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M█████

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Darren Byler

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Simon Fraser University

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0332-1742

Darren Byler is an anthropologist in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of an ethnography titled Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press 2022) and a book titled In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia Global Reports 2021). His current research interests are focused on policing, carceral theory, and global China.