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#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics

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Law and the Political. ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics. By Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek. Accelerationism pushes towards a future that is more modern, an alternative modernity that neoliberalism is inherently unable to generate. 01 INTRODUCTION: On the Conjuncture. 02 INTEREGNUM: On Accelerationisms. 1. If any system has been associated with ideas of acceleration it is capitalism. The essential metabolism of capitalism demands economic growth, with competition between ind...

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Key Concepts Critical Legal Thinking

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Law and the Political. The following is an evolving list of key concepts and themes in critical (legal) theory. Follow the hyperlinks for explanations. We are keen to receive further contributions to this page: please refer to our call for contributions. Theodor W. Adorno. Politics and the Political. Share with your friends. Content on this site is published under Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

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Purpose Critical Legal Thinking

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Law and the Political. This is our time, the time of protest, of change, the welcoming of the event. Critical (legal) theory must be re-linked with emancipatory and radical politics. We need to imagine or dream a law or society in which people are no longer despised or degraded, oppressed or dominated and from that impossible but necessary standpoint to judge the here and now. (Legal) critique is the companion and guide of radical change. Share with your friends. Paris Attacks 13 Nov 2015.

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The Greeks Deserve Better from Europe

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Law and the Political. The Greeks Deserve Better from Europe. Greek Prime Minister Alex Tspiras announced a July 5. As Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis stated:. Indeed, democracy did not have a good day in yesterday’s Eurogroup meeting! In 2013 the IMF acknowledged that their austerity measures made the situation worse for Greece. [4]. In terms of what brought Greece to the current position, the history of corruption, incompetent governments and ‘illiterate IMF’ hegemony rather than Syriza must bear res...

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Admin, Author at Critical Legal Thinking

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Law and the Political. When Seeing Isn’t Believing: On Images of Police Brutality. Our TV screens and social media feeds are saturated with images of police brutality towards African Americans; the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling among the most recent. While visual proof of police violence towards African Americans is not new as images of the 1935 Harlem race riot reveal it is now…. Read more →. CFA: Critical Approaches to Computational Law. Read more →. Read more →. Date: 20 June Time: 5PM...

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George Pappas, Author at Critical Legal Thinking

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Law and the Political. Dr George Pappas is Executive Director of the International Center for Legal Studies in Asheville, North Carolina. The Greeks Deserve Better from Europe. Read more →. The Greek Debt ‘Confidence Trick’. Read more →. Another Greek Myth: Freedom of the Press. Op-ed on the arrest of Kostas Vaxevanis for publishing the names of Greeks with Swiss bank accounts A warrant for Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis’ arrest was issued today [Ed. 28 October 2012] for the alleged crime of...

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The In/determinacy of Human Rights: A Response to O’Connell

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Law and the Political. The In/determinacy of Human Rights: A Response to O’Connell. By Illan rua Wall. Paul O’Connell recently argued. That the right to water is often juridically rendered in a ‘market friendly’ way. When Irish protestors refuse the neoliberal privatisation of water under the banner of rights they radically refashion the discourse. Illan rua Wall is associate professor of law at the University of Warwick. Human Rights: Contesting the Displacement Thesis. Share with your friends. Required...

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Sovereignty as Tension: Sri Lanka and Its North-East

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Law and the Political. Sovereignty as Tension: Sri Lanka and Its North-East. Shanthi Chandrasekar: Maya-cube (Acrylic on Canvas). Revolution (ibid:54 emphasis original). Arendt, Hannah (1951). The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: The World Publishing Company. Balibar, Etienne (1991). Citizen Subject. Who Comes after the Subject? Eds Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor. Jean- Luc Nancy. Routledge: New York. Brennan, Timothy (1997). At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now. Butler, Judith (2012). Motha, Ste...

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Their Law: The New Energies of UK Squats, Social Centres and Eviction Resistances in the Fight Against Expropriation (Part 2 of 2)

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Law and the Political. Their Law: The New Energies of UK Squats, Social Centres and Eviction Resistances in the Fight Against Expropriation (Part 2 of 2). Colonialism is colonising itself it seems. But these lives are vibrant, verdant, vital, and redolent, will not be wiped away and are time and time again coming back with their own version of collective law and resistance. Social housing not social cleansing’. It is questionable in terms of its legality as it forces housing associations to sell their pr...