°Legal, Tender

October 30, 2009

this cult of continuity, the confident assumption of knowing to whom and to what we owe our existence - whence the importance of the idea of ‘origins’ – Pierre Nora, “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire”

What passes for legal tender is a convention for the reckoning of debts – and a legalised violence steps in where convention falters.

Filed under: Labour + Borders + materialism-aleatory + Rights + theologico-politico
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°Redface, blackface, whiteface …

October 8, 2009

‘All in good fun, no offense intended to Harry or Americans’ Or, ‘who cares what foreigners think’

Filed under: Biowar + Screen
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°Συμμαχία Σε Εθνικισμό και Ομοφοβία

October 3, 2009

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Snippet from the Open Assembly of Solidarity, written for the action in Athens in support of Belgrade Pride. (More here on Belgrade Pride)

The ideology of ethnicity, of racial purity and supremacy, arms the violence against anyone who does not conform to nationalist dogma. Those who do not align themselves with the vision of nationalism are attacked because their life-practices refuse to reproduce the values responsible for the structuring of an ethnic identity. For us this is of course a very familiar characteristic of greek society, where institutions like religion and the nuclear family support ‘national [racial] coherence’. Identities like the ‘€˜good patriot’, the ‘€˜faithful orthodox’, the ‘€˜greek mother’€™ and the ‘virile man’€™ are constructed according to institutional and social mandates and it is these that safeguard social norms. [translation from emailists modified, *above image from Belgrade Pride 2001 footage.]

Filed under: Nationalism + Biowar
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°Conserving Australia’s foundational racism

September 28, 2009

The Australian Conservation Foundation recently endorsed Federal MP Kelvin Thomson’s calls to reduce migration to Australian to “to more sensible levels.” There was (perhaps still is) some very nice graffiti in Melbourne - our way of life IS the problem

Filed under: Biowar + Borders
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°When the ground shakes

September 27, 2009

From the UC Santa Cruz occupation. (A much better slogan than “We won’t pay for your crisis” methinks - and “No return to normal” is particularly good too.) Read the “Communiqué from an Absent Future”.

Filed under: Protest + Laboratories + Universities
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°Tomorrow Morrow Land

September 23, 2009

The view from my bedroom window, woken at (I think) around 5am by sirens and car alarms going off, the smell and sounds of the dustorm rolling in. Shot through flywire with the phone, so not a great quality - but captured that apocalyptic red sky. Much better pics here. Mad Maxxxxx indeed. But if you want to see how it rolled in from Broken Hill, amazing.

Filed under: Sydney
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°Liquefaction

September 22, 2009

… there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon a parchment should convey the dominion of land; why the son should have a right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so, before him … - William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769).

And here’s a pdf for the frontier household piece.

Filed under: Biowar + Laboratories + Borders + Democracy + Marx + Keynes + Rights
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