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LAW AND THE POLITICAL
Blog Carnival: Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice
The politics of aesthetics are at the heart of Rob Knox and Christine Schwöbel-Patel’s energetic edited collection Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice brings together a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, and artists. The editors approach the aesthetics of international justice in terms of tactics that can be deployed for good and ill. Essays in the first half of the collection interrogate hegemonic tactics. The anaesthetising, romanticising, distracting, and otherwise legitimising use of aesthetic objects in service of the status quo and the even worse. Contributions in the second half consider and enact counter-aesthetics, which “shift[] the dominant gaze or frame” (144) and “tak[e] the side of the downtrodden” (151). As well as essays, counter-aesthetic contributions include poems, parables, and graphic narratives, which the editors read through three counter-aesthetic tactics: rupture, détournement, and solidarity aesthetics. None of...
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A European State of Prolonged Emergency
If we look at the post-2008 history of European and Member States’ legislation, we can clearly perceive the emergence and consolidation of a discourse of crisis and necessity, which has been used to abandon existing legal constraints and to dismantle the boundaries provided by the structure of the EU. Fortified by a narrative of apocalypse, illegality has been transformed into lawfulness.
Considering the famous 2009 judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) in Germany, we can affirm that according to the fundamental Treaties:
‘the European Union must comply with democratic principles as regards its nature and extent and also as regards to its own organisational and procedural elaboration. This means firstly that European integration may not result in the system of democratic rule [in Member States] being undermined. […]
Blockupy and The Politics of Crisis
The politics of crisis speaks among other things to the inherent crisis within the capitalist process. Nonlinear studies of capitalism, for example, take a far more honest approach to their subject matter. One can read the theology that is neoclassical economics and...
Photoblog: Blockupy day 4 – “Blockupy hat gewonnen!”
Hold your mouse Locals in the Bahnhofsviertel showed their support
Blockupy Day 4: 19 May – against the politics of crisis and authoritarianism
22:10 CET: The centre right Zeit newspaper is less than impressed with the policing overkill: Taking the Blockupy events' expiration as a benchmark to assess the city's hard line, it is difficult to understand: even with a few more permitted events, with less security...
Blockupy Day 3: 18 May – German media: “Blockupy has already won”
23.38 CET: Napoleon once said: "you should never disturb the enemy when he is the middle of making a mistake". This seems to adequately describe today's Blockupy activities in which targeted and pertinent Blockupy action simply offered a leitmotif for the furious,...
Blockupy Frankfurt Day 2: 17 May – for the freedom of assembly
23;32 CET: We close today's blog with a link to the excellent photo slideshow of Sterneck. 21:58 CET: One cannot doubt the importance of today's protests and their successfulness. What occurred in the Paulsplatz in particular had been declared officially and legally...
Blockupy Frankfurt Day 1: 16 May – Frankfurt effectively in ‘State of Exception’
21:45 CET: as we enter an unseasonably cold night, thoughts turn to tomorrow's activism. We're going to sign off the blog for today. Thanks for reading. (above) Water cannon stand ready between Eschenheimer Tor and Hauptwache. 20:55 CET: there are now about 100...
Police unilaterally abandon all Blockupy personal exclusion orders
The unsustainable unconstitutionality of the total shutdown of Blockupy is beginning to manifest itself. This evening (15 May) the Police HQ in Frankfurt declared that all person-specific exclusion orders relating to the Blockupy protests on 16-19 May, which banned...
Right to a pleasant shopping experience trumps right to demonstrate
The Blockupy Alliance have indicated their intention to appeal the decision of the Frankfurt Administrative Court yesterday in which but for two exceptions the total ban on protest declared by the Frankfurt authorities for 16–19 May was upheld. “If you read the...
Administrative Court upholds Blockupy-ban
The Administrative Court in Frankfurt has today (14 May) confirmed the general Blockupy-ban issued by Frankfurt's public order councillor Markus Frank. Likewise, the Occupy camp in Willy-Brandt Platz may also be 'temporarily' cleared away. The court did provide for...
Total Blockupy ban met with 14 May protest
The complete ban on any form of Blockupy protest, the proposed clearing of the peaceful Occupy camp, the Frankfurt council's stonewalling manner, and now the setting up of an exclusion zone (see picture) for named individuals across inner Frankfurt has forced party...
“We have fought hard to ensure that the event is prohibited”: Councillor Markus Frank (CDU)
"All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order, should no other remedy be possible." Basic Law Art.20(4). After a five-hour administrative court hearing today (Sat. 12 May 2012) Frankfurt am Main's Public Order...
As expected, Frankfurt Blockupy-ban used to clear Occupy camp
The activists must "temporarily" evacuate their camp in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt next week. The reason for this declaration of Frankfurt's Public Order Administration is the upcoming Blockupy protests - the one's the same administration have...
Stop the neo-liberal crisis politics – dispossess the beneficiaries!
New international call to Blockupy from attac academic advisors and others. Reposted from www.stop-neoliberal-crises-politics.org (in DE, FR, IT, ES there): We are experiencing the deepest crisis of capitalism since the great depression of the 30s – and the European...
Elections in Greece and France
The Eight of May was the Fête de la Victoire in France. It was also the day of François Hollande’s first public appearance as president-elect. The right-wing Le Figaro featured photographs of ‘deux presidents sous l’Arc de Triomphe’, in which Sarkozy managed to look...
Authorities define “violence” as any restriction of capital flows
As debate spilled over into a shouting match in the Hessian State Parliament concerning the effective ban of Blockupy protests this 16-19 May in Frankfurt am Main, the administrative decision that effected this ban has come to light. The key finding being that: The...
Blockupy Frankfurt!
MOBILIZATION- create digital and paper mobilization materials! post these online and share the links. - spread existing mobilization materials (send us your address so we can mail you printed flyers and stickers, and here are links to what we already have:...
Blockupy in Frankfurt: Die Linke seek to overturn Blockupy ban
The City of Frankfurt has attempted to close down demonstations planned for 16-19 May in the city's banking district by requiring that any public order discussions prior to general approval only be entered into if organisers guarantee that no violence or other illegal...
Institutional Xenophobia against Immigrants in Spain
Faced with the difficulty of explaining how the image of immigrants has been constructed by the migratory policies in the majority of receiving countries (as certainly is the case in the USA and the EU), many of us have turned on more than one occasion to the metaphor...
Argentina’s Expropriation of Repsol’s YPF (A Reversal of Fortune): Understanding the Decolonial Turn in Latin America
Far from being an implausible paradox, the difference between what is happening in Europe and in Latin America lies at the epicenter of a 500-year long farce: coloniality. In a monumental reversal of fortune, the peoples of Latin America are deconstructing coloniality...
Delinking, Decoloniality & Dewesternization: Interview with Walter Mignolo (Part II)
Christopher Mattison: To continue our earlier discussion about Bolivia in relation to “refunding” or “decolonizing”—you’ve stated on a number of occasions that capitalism or socialism, as they are currently constituted, are not the answers? One of the alternatives that you offer to this issue is “delinking.” Could you expand on what you mean by delinking in this particular instance and how it integrates into modes of dewesternization and the various layers of decolonization? ¶ Walter Mignolo: Let me first re-state that the world is currently moving towards both rewesternization and dewesternization. The political ambition of the US (announced by Hillary Clinton in Honolulu and followed up by President Obama) is to mold the Pacific into the American Century. This is in line with President Obama’s politics of regaining world leadership for the US, which was severely shaken by the presidency of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Obama’s famous discourse in Cairo was one of the first moves in this direction. The turn to the Pacific was the second. However, this move came too late because of the growing confidence of the remaining world, most specifically in the Pacific.
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