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°The War on (File)Sharing

May 14, 2009

Dion Dennis, from “Domestic Wars Redux: Obama, Digital Prohibition and the New ‘Reefer Madness’” (CTheory):

°Woomera

March 28, 2009

The banner is from here. As footnote on this. Minmetals and Oz Minerals - could the company names be any more apocryphal?

Filed under: Nationalism + War
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°Amerikkka

March 11, 2009

Filed under: War + Screen
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Another few fragments from the oikopolitics piece - because some people think I’ve been uncanny and coincidental. ~~Me, I’m just wondering if someone can send me a url to Obama’s speech, and whether I have the time or inclination to rewrite some of these final paragraphs.~~ Thanks to Eric for a url to the Inaugural. But, yes, storms …. And I forgot to work in a quote from Machiavelli where he talks about the Prince arriving as the redeemer - though it’s implicit.

Filed under: War + Borders + Constitution + materialism-aleatory
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°ή θα νικήσει ο τρόμος …

December 7, 2008

… ή θα νικήσει ο δρόμος.

Filed under: War
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°Failed states

August 24, 2007

The concept of ‘failed states’ is ubiquitous in political idiom and theory, extending well beyond its methodical appearances in global security vernaculars.

Filed under: War + Borders + Constitution
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°Objects of aid

July 10, 2007

A small excerpt from Federico Rahola’s “On the Victim’s Side: A Note on Humanitarianism in the Time of Wars of Interference”. The rest, as a pdf.

We rediscover here, after a long and winding route, the political dimension of the border to which victims are led back, the humanity in excess which is produced continuously by a politics of security and present day wars. A border which appears to be tangible in the abstract opposition between a clearly located subject and undifferentiated masses, between those who watch ‘the show of suffering’ from a distance and can decide to intervene, and those who experience the sense of the place simply as a condemnation, with no alternatives, no elsewhere. A border which separates those who are still subjects of rights from those who, in the best of cases, are objects of aid.

Filed under: War + Borders
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