By Pierre Beaudet (Alternatives)
Published at Rabble
August 5, 2009
The sun is slowly coming down in this northern West Bank village. We are really a few kilometers from Galilee just outside the green line. The sun is slowly coming down in this northern West Bank village. We are really a few kilometers from Galilee [...]
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By Tim Di Muzio
“The technologies of the self found in global slums aim to cultivate the capacities of the poor and range from educating the self about sanitation and hygiene to undertaking skills training and learning to be responsible debtors, savers, and entrepreneurs. For instance, one of the most widespread modes of subjectification in informal [...]
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By Nasser Abourahme
“The slum in and of itself creates a different kind of governmentality;
AlSayyad and Roy point out that the apparently unregulated practices of
squatting are in fact a distinct form of regulation, “a set of tactics
that recreate informality as governmentality” [2006: 8]. This
informality operates through the constant negotiability of value (as
opposed to the fixing of [...]
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Posted in Bare Life on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Por Francisco Olaso
BERLÍN, 15 de mayo (apro).- El deseo creciente del Estado y las empresas alemanas por captar, almacenar, usar e incluso vender los datos personales de los ciudadanos, ha motivado una inusual advertencia pública del juez más importante del país.
Hans Jürgen Papier, presidente del Tribunal Constitucional Federal, máxima instancia de la justicia germana, alertó [...]
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Posted in Bare Life on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many consider the village of Jale to be one of the most beautiful hamlets on Albania’s Riviera. Two authors of children’s books who come from the area have often featured its deep-blue waters and sandy beaches, giving this coastal village on the Ionian Sea the image of a paradise on earth.
The families living here have [...]
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By Robert Kurz
“Oggi tutti noi ci comportiamo “autoregolativamente” come robot della responsabilità personale dell’economia di mercato.Quell’antico concetto di “libertà” cui mirava l’autonomia sociale appare oggi primitivo e preindustriale. Naturalmente noi non possiamo e non vogliamo ritornare ad un angustomodo di vivere agrario, da contadini ed artigiani. Ma il prezzo del progresso deve consistere nella degradazione [...]
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By Plan B Bureau
“The biopolitical metropolis is administrated exclusively using governance. Social movements, autonomous forces and all those who truly have the desire to subvert the status quo understand that when a struggle begins one should never commit the fatal error of going straight to negotiate with governace, sit at it’s “tables”, accept its forms [...]
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Posted in Bare Life on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Neve Gordon
“The experiment in famine began on January 18, 2008. Israel hermetically closed all of Gaza’s borders, preventing food, medicine and fuel from entering the Strip. Power cuts, which had been frequent for many months, were extended to 12 hours per day. Because of the electricity shortage, at least 40 percent of Gazans [...]
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Posted in Bare Life on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Yosefa Loshitzky
“Israel’s cruelty — manifested through its use (or rather abuse) of
language, and creative “strategy” of “re-branding” its continuous
assaults on the Palestinians as a war of defense, using their
tautological logic to justify the extermination of an “entity” which
they designate as “hostile” — should be interpreted in the spirit of
Giorgio Agamben. The influential Italian philosopher [...]
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Posted in Bare Life on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Sérgio Baierle
“In this text we reasoned that the deconstruction of the popular-democratic project in Brazil opened space for the reemergence of the neoliberal project as a hegemonic act, meaning that it was based on active acquiescence. Articulated by the concept of good governance, this new version of the same concept, now in its “inclusive” [...]
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