Post Tags Archives: language

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 [...]

The Unofficial View of Tirana (27)—in response to Adam.

To continue the ongoing exchange with A. Staley Groves on the issues of language in relation to the OWS movement and its subsidiaries, Groves pointed out in his last blog post that we are both inquiring “about the broader phenomenon of occupation moving throughout this economic ‘order,’ i.e. ‘global’ capitalism and whether or not the [...]