2. This is one of their older logos, approximately 30 years old and the main one in my lifetime. It’s fixed to lampposts...pic.twitter.com/bSlnNbvyHZ
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2. This is one of their older logos, approximately 30 years old and the main one in my lifetime. It’s fixed to lampposts...pic.twitter.com/bSlnNbvyHZ
4. Here’s another variation, dating from about the same time (mid-80s)pic.twitter.com/zmdASJYddS
5. The visual language is interesting in this logo. The elderly woman and the black man look up to the policeman for reassurance and (presumably in admiration). This would have been commissioned about the time the UK had it first spate of major race riots (Brixton, Toxteth).pic.twitter.com/uhx38dWKdd
6. Race relations between black people and the police were not good. This murder proved to be a very controversial incident during the riots, with counter-accusations and recriminations on all sides.pic.twitter.com/eNNmQlvnHu
7. In the image, the white policeman & the black man look at each other, almost adoringly. The suggestion is paternal (they are not on the same height level, so equality is not suggested. The policeman is higher up, “superior” in visual language, to all people in this image.)pic.twitter.com/mxyjFzeOFJ
8. The policeman represents the liberal-technocratic state, which is superior to us all. Cheekily, we could almost say that there is a homeoerotic element to the police-man relationship here, they are making lingering eye contact after all...pic.twitter.com/nvm0JEiTp7
9. The reality was very different to the image that the liberal-technocratic state wanted to portray. This image, from the 1981 Brixton riots, shows how race relations between police and ethnic minorities went.pic.twitter.com/Iv5jB3wfgC
10. The point here is that the liberal-technocratic state conceptualises itself and presents itself as the protector of the oppressed and weak (the elderly, children, & ethnic minorities). The white (police)man is the violent vanguard who protects these groups.pic.twitter.com/HJ1zRgu4Si
11. This is the latest iteration, note that the paternal (or homoerotic) relationship between policeman & ethnic minority is gone, but the policeman still looms larger than anyone else...the state is still guarding...and guiding you.pic.twitter.com/6gWb87La8O
12. Interesting, bc—counter to far right claims—the liberal-technocratic state still sees a vanguard role for the white man policing its state & fighting its wars. The policeman is still not from an ethnic minority. That’s for another 30yrs, maybe— if Britain lasts that long.pic.twitter.com/sqBv7UqXTw
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