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I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
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When police kill the homeless, they often do so with impunity. I've tagged this entry as a 'feature' due to the magnitude of its length more so than of its quality, but it does probe an important issue at the nexus of my libertarian and anti-capitalist motivations. It is my first (and rough) attempt at applying some ideas from the first volume of Agamben's Homer Sacer to the criminalization of homelessness (following Feldman's lead).
Remembering Saint Max on this All Saints' Day: A spooky explanation of why I don't vote from an individualist's perspective.
On my arrest at the Occupy Denver encampment, trial, conviction, and ongoing fight against the criminalization of homelessness.
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In my previous commentary on the social unrest in Ferguson, MO, I suggested that the activities of riots were apocalyptic in their ability to shatter the illusion of legitimacy with which authority masks itself. In this essay I explore the limits of a few of those ideas including a clarification on the meaning of “false consciousness,” the question of (Tolstoyan) pacifism, and a generalization of the virtues of riots to disruptive peace.
When police kill the homeless, they often do so with impunity. I've tagged this entry as a 'feature' due to the magnitude of its length more so than of its quality, but it does probe an important issue at the nexus of my libertarian and anti-capitalist motivations. It is my first (and rough) attempt at applying some ideas from the first volume of Agamben's Homer Sacer to the criminalization of homelessness (following Feldman's lead).
Remembering Saint Max on this All Saints' Day: A spooky explanation of why I don't vote from an individualist's perspective.
Some thoughts on the necessity of law.
On my arrest at the Occupy Denver encampment, trial, conviction, and ongoing fight against the criminalization of homelessness.