°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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°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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°Household frontier

August 25, 2009

An excerpt, still in draft, of “The Household Frontier,” written with Melinda Cooper:

Filed under: Biowar + Laboratories + Borders + Escape + Rights
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°Trespass

July 23, 2009

Apropos previous notes on passing:

Filed under: Biowar + Borders + Constitution + Escape + Movement
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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):

Filed under: Labour + War + Borders + Memes + Rights
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°The New Inquisition

May 2, 2009

Lots of interesting pieces in the most recent Reartikulacija and Transmediale. Still reading, but from Tatjana Greif’s “Euro-sins and the New Inquisition”:

Filed under: Biowar + Reading + theologico-politico
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°It’s like a fire

April 6, 2009


Filed under: Memes + London + theologico-politico
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