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www.keanuheydari.com
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| | | | | The primary texts under discussion include Benjamin Claude Brower's A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 (2009); Jennifer E. Sessions's By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria (2011); Judith Surkis's Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in Algeria, 1830-1930 (2019); and Joshua Cole's Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (2019). Taken together, these texts provide insight about four typologies of violence and violent behaviors in the French Algerian colonial field: physical violence (including structural violence), ideological violence (including symbolic violence), juridico-discursive violence, and inter-communal violence (by way of) provocation. | |
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www.imaginaryfutures.net
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| | | | | [AI summary] The provided text is a dense and complex collection of references, citations, and a brief discussion on cybernetic communism, blending literary, philosophical, and technological themes. It appears to be a scholarly or conceptual work, possibly a paper, essay, or article, that explores the intersection of technology, society, and political theory, particularly focusing on the evolution of ideas from the 20th century into the digital age. The text references numerous authors, books, and concepts, including cybernetics, post-industrial society, the virtual class, and the role of technology in shaping human interaction and organization. It also touches on themes like the 'virtual agora,' the 'electronic agora,' and the integration of communist princ... | |
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| | | | | The tensions introduced by the prominence of a still partially medieval institution in modern society can only be resolved in two possible ways: the creation of institutions of education and knowledge production on a more modern model; or a partial neo-feudalization of the modalities, if not the class structure, of modern society, a process already underway... | |
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| | | Guest post by Dr. Tony Brown "Personal carbon rations would have to be mandatory, imposed by Government in the same way that food rationing was introduced in the UK in 1939... Each person would receive an electronic card containing their year's carbon credits ...see the Tyndall Centre's study on "domestic tradable quotas"... and their recent... | ||