°Harmondsworth riots

November 30, 2006

UK Indymedia | MetaMute | SBS
Two days ago: “Britain’s largest immigration removal centre, Harmondsworth … is being run with a regime that is as strict as any high security prison, with those facing deportation victimised by staff and some strip-searched and temporarily locked in solitary confinement, according to the chief inspector of prisons.” | Indy update

Filed under: Internment Camps + Protest
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°zoon politikon

November 29, 2006

Continuing the discussions on human rights (and touching on the brief discussion on Ranciere, as well as Marx’s political anthropology), and so as to think through the complexities by which human rights discourses amount to a depoliticisation, but also are part of the politicisation of life - here are some of my notes on the depoliticisation aspect.

Arendt insists that it is false that “there is something political in man that belongs to his essence.”

Filed under: Borders + Rights + Arendt
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°Norm und Projektion

November 27, 2006

Yesterday I watched Katja Diefenbach’s contribution to the DictionaryOfWar, speaking on police war.

In that paper, she takes apart the normative fiction of a regular war, of a war regulated by and occuring between nation-states (of which Schmitt is one version), and the mourning that subsequently characterises certain discussions of a new form of war.

Filed under: Labour + War + Multitudes
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°bufferzone, filterzone

November 26, 2006

Speaking of the proliferation of ‘offshore’ migration processing and internment, below a report from action-2 on the recent November meeting in Tripoli, between European and African state representatives on migration management.

Filed under: Internment Camps + Borders
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°Rights of man

November 24, 2006

Another fragment from Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow’s, “Why Work on Rights? Citizenship, Welfare and Property in Empire and Beyond,” Theory & Event, 8:4, 2005:

Hardt and Negri’s new mode of being is thus universal neither in time nor in space (given that each individual must risk a failure to transform into “humanity squared”). But in any case, as we would argue, any and every grounding of a political program in an ontology is necessarily exclusive. Any such political ontology is a result of a decision about the truth of the world. In particular, Hardt and Negri’s ontology necessarily stops at the limit of the “homo” itself, the category of “Man” or “humanity,” leaving unremarked this ontology’s inevitable construction of a category of the “animal” or the “non-human” that falls beneath this threshold. In order, therefore, for Hardt and Negri to claim the universality of their ontology, they must presume that man or humanity exists coherently and without dispute. But no ontology is capable of securing its border without generating a class of beings excluded from it and committing itself to the endless policing of even those who are included. Hardt and Negri claim that their program of rights achieves universality precisely because it is grounded in a “new” ontology. But in fact, the moment they inaugurate this grand ontological project, they doom their program to failure.

Filed under: Borders + Rights
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°Horizontality, and the democratic horizon

November 22, 2006

In “Nothing is what democracy looks like,” Rodrigo Nunes offers some sceptical thoughts on the much-touted openness and horizontality of networks while, elsewhere, Dave Antagonism responds - “In the Wake… After the G20″ - to the debates about violence, the Arterial bloc, etc.

Filed under: Protest + Laboratories + Sense + Democracy
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°okupa

Okupa! - a rough cut video on 4 occupied social centers or squats: Dezguace, Seco and Labo 03 all in Madrid and Casa de Iniciativas 1.5 in Málaga. From lotu5 and The Platform. Watch the video here. Some more details here.

Filed under: Laboratories
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