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Today, state intervention in favor of free markets is everywhere in evidence: from support for stringent laws on intellectual property rights to fiscal subsidies for faith-based initiatives, from opening the Arctic for oil drilling to the promotion of…Desert Islands: Ransom of Humanity
Makrónisos, Yáros, Trikeri, Guantánamo Bay do not belong to totalitarianism. They are all gestures located within the consensual context of parliamentary democracy, and they are gestures that expose the deep desire for power that ties together, strings…The Ki?m Tháo and the Uses of Disposable Time in the National Liberation Front
It may seem strange at first to propose to examine the uses of free time in relation to war, in the context of war. War, after all, is often associated precisely with the absence of free time, and by an accelerated experience of time: the rapid succe…Why Papua Wants Freedom: The Third Person in Contemporary Nationalism
In this essay, I address a question that has preoccupied recent writers on nationalism: does nationalism repeat itself? Is every assertion of national identity, no matter how intimately singular each may seem, merely the recurrence of a general form?Critique of Popular Culture
The task is no longer to interrogate popular culture with the fully formed apparatus of a scientific worldview. Rather, it is to begin from the practices of popular culture, to immerse oneself in its forms, in order to develop its critique.