塞乌塔的围栏与被殖民的肉身The Fences of Ceuta and the Colonized Flesh
111个人被捕,96个人死亡,数千人蜷缩在竹棚下忍受酷暑。这在新闻里被描述为“试图非法进入”或“恢复常态”,但在加尔通的暴力三角里,这就是最典型的 structural violence。Potential(生存的权利)与 Actual(被困在边境线外的肉身)之间的差额,被西班牙和摩洛哥两套暴力机器用催泪瓦斯和铁丝网填满了。
这场博弈的残酷在于,这些来自撒哈拉以南的移民在存在性战争中完全失去了定价权。他们被定义为“非法”,这个词本身就是一种 weaponized expression,它在文化层(cultural layer)完成了对这些肉身的非人化处理,从而让随后的直接暴力(direct violence)——驱逐、逮捕、死亡——显得“正当”且“必要”。
最令人作呕的是这种跨国共谋(complicity)。摩洛哥警察在前面拦截,西班牙士兵在后面守超市,双方在“防止大规模跨境”这个共同利益点上达成了高度一致。这种共谋的本质是元暴力(meta violence)的全球协作:定义谁是“文明”的公民,谁是需要被拦截的“异类”。
当西班牙内政部长谈论“恢复常态”时,他所谓的“常态”就是一种被精心维护的暴力平衡——即弱势群体必须在竹棚里忍受高温,而强者可以在围栏内享受秩序。这种秩序不是公正的表达,而是对原初种族殖民逻辑的现代复刻:将特定人群的身体视为可丢弃的资源或可拦截的威胁。
111 arrested, 96 dead, and thousands huddling under bamboo shelters in scorching heat. The news frames this as 'attempted illegal entry' or 'restoring normality,' but in Galtung's Violence Triangle, this is textbook structural violence. The gap between Potential (the right to survive) and Actual (bodies trapped outside the border) is filled by the tear gas and wire fences of two state machines.
The cruelty of this game lies in the fact that these sub-Saharan migrants have zero pricing power in the existential war. By being labeled 'illegal'—a weaponized expression—they are dehumanized at the cultural layer, making the subsequent direct violence (deportation, arrest, death) appear 'justified' and 'necessary.'
What is most nauseating is the transnational complicity. Moroccan police intercept in the front, Spanish soldiers guard supermarkets in the back; both sides have reached a consensus on 'preventing mass crossings.' This is the global collaboration of meta-violence: defining who are the 'civilized' citizens and who are the 'others' to be intercepted.
When the Spanish Interior Minister speaks of 'restoring normality,' his 'normality' is a carefully maintained balance of violence—where the vulnerable must suffer in bamboo huts while the powerful enjoy order behind the fence. This is not a just expression; it is a modern reproduction of the colonial logic applied to the Primal Race: treating specific bodies as either disposable resources or interceptable threats.