The concept of ‘failed states’ is ubiquitous in political idiom and theory, extending well beyond its methodical appearances in global security vernaculars. 
Some excerpts from Rebecca Wittmann’s “Torture on Trial: Prosecuting Sadists and the Obfuscation of Systemic Crime”, South Central Review, 24:1, 2007, and some remarks below the blockquote.
The above is a tour of the migrant detention centre currently being built on Christmas Island, estimated at around 364 million AUD, and with the capacity to intern 800 people - with a soundtrack I can almost, but not quite, name.
Here’s what I just sent off for the edu-factory discussions.
– ή θα νικήσει ο τρόμος, ή θα νικήσει ο δρόμος
As is more or less well-known, Kant’s writings on the university, collected under the heading of The Conflict of the Faculties, are preoccupied with establishing limits, borders – above all, the limits to conflict.
Armed police attempts to break a blockade in Nandigram (in West Bengal’s East Midnapur district) have resulted in 14 dead and over 75 injured.
“Mr Howard also reinforced his determination not to leave Iraq before his US allies, saying it would be ‘very bad for Western prestige’.”
More pointed version here. More disturbing version, if that could be possible, here (via Jon). And, still disturbing, but in a very different way: Brendan Nelson’s interview on Lateline. The transcript is funny, the video hilarious - “it’s peace-keeping, it’s counter-insurgency, it’s rebuilding Iraq all of it within the same country at the same time, principally in Baghdad and al-Anbar province”, among other gems of ungrammatical masculine indignancy over the prospect of “premature withdrawal”.
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