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LAW AND THE POLITICAL
Reflections on the Proscription of Palestine Action
VX Photo/ Vudi Xhymshiti Remember that we are living, writing, waking up, sleeping, lamenting, breathing, resisting, and working amid an acceleration of Israel’s 75-year settler colonial project (underwritten by the US and Europe), or what we have come to call a genocide. Settler colonialism is not an event but a structure, and ‘genocide’ is an intensification of the necropolitical logics of that structure. It is tricky to write this piece, however, for another reason. Mainly because, if I’m not careful, it could land me in prison. This would not have been the case had I written this a few days earlier. Writing this now, however, could be read as support or calling for the support of an organisation the state understands as ‘concerned with terrorism’. What a difference a few days makes (a maximum of 14 years, to be exact). The following is a stream of consciousness. Therefore, though at times it may appear incoherent, it is, like durée, all...
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The Russian Revolution, as covered by Sky
In the wake of the first Russian Revolution in March 1917, let’s survey some of the media coverage. Sky News -There are fears in London tonight over just who will come to power in the wake of this week’s events in Petrograd. Just days after US President Wilson...
Exception, Precariousness, Power & Authority: irregular migrants in Australian law (Pt. 2)
<<< Part I State of exception, resurgent sovereignty? The Australian government has attempted to assert that the entire RSA process is an exercise of non-statutory executive power and as such, status assessors and independent reviewers are under no obligation...
The Resistible Attraction of War
The military intervention in Libya has been met with a chorus of approval in France, resounding from all the parties represented in the Parliament, as was the case for the war in Afghanistan, as well as from various commentators. Everyone says that France has just...
The Great Libyan Distraction
The entire Libyan conflict of the last month – the civil war in Libya, the U.S.-led military action against Gaddafi – is neither about humanitarian intervention nor about the immediate supply of world oil. It is in fact one big distraction – a deliberate distraction –...
Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, France, Libya and Me
In Alain Badiou’s open reply to Jean-Luc Nancy, he chides Nancy for falling into the trap that the NATO attacks on Libya were in any way designed to rescue the insurgents of Benghazi. Badiou is amazed that someone so informed about geopolitics, and the covert agenda...
Alain Badiou’s reply to Jean-Luc Nancy
The following is Alain Badiou's full reply to Jean-Luc Nancy's "What the Arab peoples signify to us". With many thanks to Verso Books UK. Yes, dear Jean-Luc, the position you adopt in favour of ‘Western' intervention in Libya was indeed a sorry surprise for me. Didn't...
Transitory persons, precarious lives: irregular migrants in Australian law (Part 1)
As workers and students were occupying and rioting across Europe in December last year, activists in Australia were again mourning the tragic loss of life of undocumented migrants.[1] On the 15th of December a boat carrying 100 asylum seekers was wrecked against rocks...
Thinking of Political Violence: a minor commentary on March 26th 2011, London
Events, by definition, are occurrences that interrupt routine processes and routine procedures; only in a world in which nothing of importance ever happens could the futoroligists’s dream come true. No one engaged in thought about history and politics can remain...
What the Arab peoples signify to us
The Arab peoples are signifying to us that resistance and revolt are with us once again, and that history is moving beyond History. They are doing it, as is appropriate, with all the fortune and misfortune that it involves. At the very least they have sent an...
In the light of today’s questions
We learn from David Cameron that Muammar Gaddafi ‘has lied to the international community,’ Sarkozy, in more poetic vein, suggests a ‘murderous madness’ which must be stopped, and Gaddafi himself, last night (22 March), criticises the commencement of a ‘new Crusader...
Use of Private Law to Control Student Occupations
I have been wondering about teaching one of the secret lives of private law; the use of the law of tort, contract and equity to regulate on-campus student protest. There is a growing online archive - of blogs, media reports and university press releases - which...
Human Rights for Corporations: The Death of Democracy?
Miraculous you call it babe You ain't seen nothing yet They've got Pepsi in the Andes McDonalds in Tibet (Roger Waters, Amused to Death) In the case of Citizens United v Federal Election Commission 130 S.Ct. 876 (2010) the United States Supreme Court, its highest...
The Speed of Revolutionary Resonance
The current wave of revolutionary insurrections seems to be the fastest in history. Revolutions always come in waves, but insurgent shockwaves that once expanded across continents over years or months are now making states crumble, one after another, in a matter of...
Punk, Law, Resistance … No Future: Punk against the Boredom of the Law (3 of 3)
Boring life What a boring life /How could anyone surviveBoring life.(The Slits, "A Boring Life") Punk spoke not of ideals and dreams but of boredom. For punks, the 1960s hippie dream was dead and the socialist utopias were as boring as the ideologies of the law and...
Punk, Law, Resistance … No Future: Punk against the Boredom of the Law (2 of 3)
My new rose, lets go Hey ho, let's go Hey ho, let's go [...] They're piling in the back seat They're generating steam heat Pulsating to the back beat The Blitzkrieg Bop. (Ramones, “Blitzkrieg Bop”) Even if the lyrics of punk did not always address political issues or...
Punk, Law, Resistance … No Future: Punk against the Boredom of the Law (1 of 3)
Pawn in their game And that's the way they try and run this land How they hold you down and keep you in hand You're just a pawn in their game. (Stiff Little Fingers, "Law and Order") Being nothing other than a pawn in their game – who has not sometimes woken up...
Punk, Law, Resistance … War and Piss
Punk has always been about the real – real voices, real problems, real lives, real people behind the stories. Something different from what various ‘dream factories’ are about. The real is not always comfortable. It is raw, incomprehensible, and it is scary in its...
Punk, Law, Resistance … “I have set my affair on nothing”
1. I, Punk In 1977 I was sixteen. Everything I have to say about punk is coloured by that fact, because sixteen was precisely the right age to be if punk was going to have a decisive impact on you. Because punk was not about your social class, gender or race, it was...
Punk, Law, Resistance … Introduction
Over the coming week there will appear on Critical Legal Thinking a series of posts on the theme "Punk, Law, Resistance". The idea for this series was inspired by some of the highly creative forms of protest that have recently taken place in the UK by, for example,...
The Invisible Wall or Different Ways to Spend your Summer on a Small Island
These hunger strikers are the martyrs of Greece
As the world follows the north African revolutions with bated breath, a less public north African revolt and tragedy is taking place in Athens and Thessaloniki. Three hundred non-documented migrants, mostly from the Maghreb, have entered the 35th day of a hunger...
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