Post Tags Archives: Jacques Derrida

Language, Politics, and the New Libertarian Century

Forget for a moment the racist charges, von Mises’ism’ness, anti Civil Rightedness–all of it. The libertarian appeal has had to find sometimes obscure pockets to work its ideas into the American conversation because libertarianism is not properly a traditonal mainstream ideology, only when convenient is it called in. This has changed, and it knows no [...]

Intervention: “The Broken Oath of Democracy”

Intervention at the book presentation of Hans van Houwelingen: Undone Stroom Den Haag, The Hague NL December 11, 2011   ὄυτε λόγος ἐχυρὸς, ὄυτε ὅρκος φοβερός – Thucidydes[1]   Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon.   For me it is an honor to speak here, today, as we are closing Hans van Houwelingen’s exhibition Until It [...]

OWS (4): As Tina Turner propounded: “We don’t need another hero.”—in response to Vincent

Berardi states “[m]oney (i.e. economics) and the State (i.e. politics) are no longer able to govern or discipline the world of production, now that its center is not a de-brained force, a uniform and quantifiable time of manual work. That center is now occupied by mind flows, by the ethereal substance of intelligence, which eludes [...]