from redbird prison abolition Thursday, May 3: Ohio Super Max Hunger Strike Continues and Expands According to a level 5 prisoner participating in the hunger strike at Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) there are forty-eight (48) prisoners who have refused nine meals and should be officially recognized as on hunger strike. Warden Bobby has not returned calls [...]
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Ohio Super Max Prisoners on Hunger Strike
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged micro-politics, militancy, power, state, the state, war machine on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
New Section: Downloads
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The Peculiar ‘Freedom’ of Neo-Liberalism
Posted in Ideas, Uncategorized, tagged freedom, neo-liberalism on May 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Neo-liberalism thrives off a reversal that seems to paradoxically eliminate the “liberties” of classical liberalism. ‘Freedom’, or more specifically personal development, is only encouraged in neo-liberalism if it fosters competition. You are ‘free’ to enjoy hobbies like home-brewing or gardening but even those self-entrepreneurial activities come at a cost — they count against you in [...]
Jamming the Symbolic Machine of Empire: The Body in Direct Action
Posted in Ideas, Uncategorized, tagged biopower, butler, direct action, foucault, zizek on May 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In his response to Butler in Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, Žižek challenges Butler’s notion of re-signification. Žižek notes that it’s not that re-signification is never effective, it’s just that both the two imaginaries on the left – the democratic welfare state imaginary and the ‘really-existing-Socialism’ – have been all but exhausted (325). Rather than resignify the [...]
satire? irony? humor?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The copy of “Invisible Governance” I ILL’d came from the University of Chicago. On the inside cover, a glued sticker reads: The University of Chicago Library Given in honor of His Excellency H. Kamuzu Banda Life President of the Republic of Malawi University of Chicago 1931
Tiqqun Apocrypha Repost
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agamben, eric hazan, Tiqqun on April 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A kind NYC blogger did a quick-dirty translation of the Agamben/Hazan discussion on Tiqqun. It was later taken down. I can’t speak to the quality of the translation, some things are obviously wrong (for instance the translator remarks that FC is male when in fact she is female…). I also do not know why it [...]
