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In the line of Kerry Howley’s spot-on debunking of the Libertarian philosophy, Will Wilkinson gives a succinct, reasonable dismissal of the Libertarian reduction of all political concerns to questions of ‘property rights’.
Todd Seavey continues to argue that libertarianism just is the view that the only legitimate function of the state (if it has any legitimate [...]
In the 90s, when multiculturalism had the Right on the ropes, racism, so the story goes, was forced to move between-the-lines (of populist conservative discourse). As Žižek observes in The Universal Exception:
“In the election campaigns of Jesse Helms, the racist and sexist message is not publicly acknowledged — at the public level, it is sometimes [...]
London, November 26: Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG with Antoine Bousquet of Birkbeck College will present a public lecture on ‘Battlespace/s: Feral Cities and the Scientific Way of Warfare’.
Manaugh’s lecture will be an analysis of ‘cities gone wild’ and their relation to war, architecture, science fiction and geopolytics.
Being a fan of Rafi Segal’s important A Civilian [...]
17 to 18 April 2009
Binghamton, NY, United States
Website: http://pic.binghamton.edu/
Contact name: Hilary Malatino
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This conference seeks to explore the interconnectedness of technology,
relationality and practices of resistance. We conceptualize technology
broadly, as referring to systems, methods of organization, visual/imaging
techniques, and political strategies and tactics, as well as to specific
material objects and systems of objects [...]
While Children of Men (2006, dir. Alfonso Cuarón) does in some sense offer a peaceful, hopeful, and politically progressive message, its expression is nonetheless complicated by a utopian, transcendental vision – namely that ‘bare life’ – the ‘miracle of life’ – transcends politics and partisanship alike. This is made iconically clear in the dramatic scene [...]
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