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°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.

°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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°Sitrep

March 22, 2009

Filed under: Screen + Galactica + theologico-politico
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°Greencollaring and the biblebelt-tightening

February 11, 2009

Obama (November 22, 2008):

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A couple of paragraphs of an essay - “Oikopolitics, and Storms” - I just hit send on last night. On Fordism and post-Fordism, the coincidence of financial and climatic crises, environmental audits, war and more - but in a more specific sense an argument about why it might be better to think these and other questions through the wider, more complex lens of oikopolitics along with the more narrow (though purportedly neutral) concepts of biopolitics, affect or labour.

Filed under: Biowar + Borders + Machiavelli + materialism-aleatory + Arendt + Lucretius + theologico-politico
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°Iconoclasmic

December 19, 2008

Violence has flared again in central Athens as rioters threw rocks and firebombs at the police and tried to burn down the city’s main Christmas tree, which had just been replaced.The old tree was burned in a demonstration last week during the worst spasm of protests in Greece in years. Christmas shoppers fled the area [ … etc]

… and hilarious. (more)

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