Jung in the wake of Deleuze:

Even in the smallest point is the pleroma endless, eternal, and entire, since small and great are qualities which are contained in it. It is that nothingness which is everywhere whole and continuous.

Jung, “Sermo I,” Seven Sermons to the Dead, 1916

Earlier this year, the Congressional Biomedical Caucus – of which U.S. Rep. Rush Holt is a co-chair – hosted a briefing by Dr. David Brenner of Columbia University on the potential health effects of “back scatter” x-ray devices. According to Dr. Brenner, the devices currently in use and proposed for wider deployment deliver to the scalp “20 times the average dose that is typically quoted by TSA and throughout the industry.” Dr. Brenner has pointed out that the majority of the radiation from X-ray backscatter machines strikes the top of the head, which is where 85 percent of the 800,000 cases of basal cell carcinoma diagnosed in the United States each year develop.

According to Dr. Brenner, excessive x-ray exposure can act as a cancer rate multiplier, which is why Holt has urged the government to investigate thoroughly the potential health risks associated with this technology.

New TSA tactics bring the ethos of the factory farm to airport security. You must be processed, with as little dignity and compassion as possible. And I firmly believe that the degradation is part of the intent, rather than a simple side effect. Just as cruelty is intentionally designed into the system of handling animals, in order to reinforce the productization of our relationships to living beings as “commodities,” our relationships to our boides are being deliberately undermined, to transform the notion of citizens into that of products to be handled by the apparatus of the safety state.