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Any Palestinian activity is going to be pretense for the Israeli far right to attack the Palestinians, there's nothing particularly special about this sort of tactic- in fact, this is perhaps one of the most moderate moves I think could be taken without being completely inconsequential. The...

Unfortunately, sympathy is a dead letter for the Palestinian people. On the one hand, I'm sure that there's no end to it, everyone can be sympathetic with a situation as horrible as is going on; on the other hand, however, sympathy produces nothing outside of, and only sometimes, a bit of...

Bug spray.

I agree with usage of the word capture. I think that the reality of a military occupation and armed resistance movement really mitigates calling this incedent against a soldier terrorism or kidnapping even. That the Israeli government can still take recourse to the rhetoric of their own...

I think Matthew Barney partially has this covered with Drawing Restraint 9

A healthy respect for irony?

It's completely absurd and disproportionate. However, when Guantanamo detainees kill themselves, apparently this too is an act of asymmetrical warfare. Once they've created a portrait of the other in this situation as an absolute enemy or as human beings who always have within them the...

Israel eyes wider Gaza sweep (Reuters) Bah! Give me a break. I noticed there wasn't a thread up for the discussion of this horrific Israeli war of pretense. All I have to say is that as Israel keeps this up, as they attempt to strip any human attribute from the palestinians, they create...

Perhaps Lenin said that the goal of all politics was the abolition of the state and the installment of generic communism. That's what Badiou paraphrases (?) in the Metapolitics

I have the version of Weber's Protestant Ethic, which I think might actually be one of the first done in this series of reprints...I love the re-introduction of design into the covers, but I am, upset that people have found typos. However, how does this compare with the violent urge towards...

Also, one of the poor fellows was slated to be transferred today, they just hadn't told him.

There's Zizek's interesting perspective on this same matter, in the Puppet and the Dwarf...However, Zizek does quote the Bhagavad Gita pretty extensively in support of this point, so who knows what's up there.

Please translate for non-Brits

What spirit?

of course you're right, it's like 'folk psychology,' how we can describe or denote our mental states and volitions without having any actual knowledge of how they work or even if we have the free will we're speaking about. I didn't mean to degract from the conversation or belittle the efforts...

Tangential perhaps, but it is interesting to note how all of the philosophies/knowledges mentioned above presume the very existence of a coherent subject, one which on the one hand exists to be commanded, and on the other can be commanded. I think that the benefits of anti-humanism have showed...

call me a starry-eyed idealist, but It's always worth a try...

Grizzly Man...I guess the grizzlies didn't want to be domesticated.

oooh its a snake, its a snake

I apologize then, I was posting when I was far too busy/sleep deprived to be nice. And two wrongs don't make a right, so there's no need to try and insult me. In any case though, I think this 'solution' is a total non-starter. I won't adress practicality, because nothing worthwhile ever is...