°Gewalt redux

February 18, 2006

Something to add to the readings of Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Gewalt’: Alexander Karschnia’s “Down by Law - A Critique for the 21st Century”:


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°Publication

What’s at stake in publication is the creation (and fortifiction) of publics.


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°Export Product

February 17, 2006

Inflatable Parliament [de] [en]


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°Contracting subjection-subject

February 16, 2006

Aside from the all-too brief discussion of multiculturalism (of which there is a more specific discussion of by Paul Treanor posted at Mute), the other aspect I wanted to explore in “Under the beach, the barbed wire” was the relation between the social (and wage) contract and the border.


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°Reproducing race

February 15, 2006

Apparently, “we are aborting ourselves almost out of existence” - emphasis added.

The Minister for Immigration, generally presented as disagreeing with Dana Vale’s eugenically-inclined remarks, in fact gave credence to their sentiment while assuring ‘us’ that migration policy would ensure that no such thing happened. That is, Amanda Vanstone chose her words more carefully than did Danna Vale – without for a moment abandoning the politics.


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°Aussie icons

February 8, 2006


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While the beloved and I head for more northern parts of AU, you can read “Under the Beach, the Barbed Wire”, up on MetaMute - on Cronulla and related matters: iconisation, beaches, borders, the ’social contract’, ‘Workchoices’ etc. *[I found the above graphic on a blog some time ago, but can’t recall the url - sorry.]


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°Chainworkers (mark 2)

“We are convinced that the present situation cannot be modified from inside the political-judicial discourse.” - possibly the most interesting remark from the recent Chainworker interview (via nettime), for those who’ve been following the debates. The rest of the interview is below


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