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"My principle, which will appear astonishing to you, citizens, my principle is yours; it is property itself."—P.-J. Proudhon
And I suggested that:
- "Property" is its broadest sense, as a "social problem," involving by the issue of the "mine and thine" and that of the "you and me;"
- "Property" as "ownness," relating to "the circle of self-enjoyment," that defines the unique individual, and which refers both the the material resources involved in specific instances of self-enjoyment (the facts of "possession") and the principle of organization by which they are thus involved;
- "Property" or "properties," referring to those material resources;
- "Properties," referring to the component characteristics of the individual (which both Stirner and Proudhon may encourage us to treat as "uniques" in their own right and at their own scale, and which some theories of property have treated as "property," in the sense of #3, in order to argue that everyone is a "proprietor" or "capitalist");
- "Property rights," as social and/or legal attempts to formalize standards for answering some one or more of the question posed by the other senses of "property;"
- "Propriety," in the general sense that each should have and respect its own in a well-managed society;
and a bunch of subordinate distinctions (real property, chattel property, products, allod, usufruct, etc., etc., etc.), referring to specific property norms and forms proposed in the course of our long engagement with the general problem of "property."
a coherent property theory needs to be able to carry the same terms across the terrain of appropriation, maintenance, abandonment or expropriation, exchange, exclusive and shared domain, the possibilities of "intellectual property," the relation between theories of property and their abuses, the relation between property and gift, etc.
I added a page at the top for Musik Videos. I’m re-organizing my blog and figuring out what to best use it for. My blog started out as my personal blog and now has evolved into whatever this is. It saves me time to have projects that are really just for me at this point – DJing, zine-making and filmmaking – linked in the same location instead of creating several different blogs and different usernames. I’m working too much in the blogosphere with the different projects. I don’t feel the need to take credit for other ones and it’s not the point to have other ones here. If you really want to see something take off for other people you don’t want to brand it, especially not with your name – you don’t it to be tied to one person’s ego. It’s still overwhelming sometimes with this blog and some other projects because I can sit here for hours and hours and forget about the time — and then I wonder what the hell I did that was worth sitting here so long. Consolidating projects is good if for no other reason than saving some time from digital alienation land. I wonder this blog seems like I’m trying to advertise how cool I am. Please tell me if you get that impression. I wonder if it comes across egotistical, or that it’s about taking every bit of credit for anything involving myself. (I write articles, have a zine distro, make films and even DJ! hey! look at me…) If I start quoting myself that would be ridiculous. Somebody should say something.
As far as filmmaking and music videos – I do this as my source of income these days, so I’m also trying to get the word out to friends and likeminded folks (musicians, anarchists, people with worthwhile projects) that I do this kind of work, and people can hire me to help them with videos, building websites, I also do graphic design, and I’m savvy with online social networking, (I’ve worked for online marketers and know how they operate, which is, pretty shitty!) Up till this year I’ve been doing this and not asking for pay, because I like making videos that get people excited about real things. However, I’m soon going to add a donation box through Paypal for these three projects: Potlatch, Staarfox and K’N films. If people want to send me some cheeze, cool, but I’m not going to count on it. Thanks for reading this post – below are 3 music videos from ’08 that I downloaded from subMedia.tv‘s Youtube channel and uploaded into a separate account for UtopiaOrBust. These are clips I made with Frank Lopez at the DNC in 2008. No music videos from the RNC – shit got too buckwild! But check out the musik video page since there’s more of them there.
In recent news have you seen some of these wicked photos from Oakland’s general strike on Wednesday?
A common argument used in support of genetically modified crops is the possibly unfounded assumption that GM crops are needed to mitigate global hunger. In some of the literature that supports this supposition, no effort is made to evaluate whether or not farmers can continue to produce enough food to feed the world without this [...]
Okay, this is embarrassing.
There used to be an organisation with the name “Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State.”
Later on they switched to the more diplomatic “Americans United for Separation of Church and State.”
And in more recent years they’ve informally shortened it to “Americans United.”
And until today I had them mixed up with “Citizens United.” (Or, more precisely, I had “Citizens United” mixed up with them.)
D’oh!
Israel cannot be held accountable for its actions by any international tribunal as it refuses to accept the jurisdiction of either the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court. The Russell Tribunal seeks to remedy this weakness in the international system of justice by providing for accountability by a court of international opinion. It does not seek to obstruct the peace process. On the contrary, it wishes to promote it. But there can be no peace without justice. This is a basic principle that Richard Goldstone, who has written an op-ed criticising the Russell Tribunal (Israel and the Apartheid Slander, New York Times, October 31, 2011), has devoted much his life to, as prosecutor before the Yugoslavia Tribunal. READ the full article.
“… they fear this logical next step from the movement more than anything else. They fear it because they know how much appeal it will have. All across the US thousands upon thousands of commercial and residential spaces sit empty while more and more people are forced to sleep in the streets, or driven deep into poverty while trying to pay their rent despite unemployment or poverty wages… [The police] say: you can stay in your rat-infested park. You can camp out here as long as we [sic] want. But the moment that you threaten property rights, we will come at you with everything we have.”
READ the full article.
“Heathcare: A Crisis of Artificial Scarcity”
by Kevin Carson
“In healthcare, subsidies to the most costly and high-tech forms of medicine crowd out cheaper and decentralized alternatives, so that cheaper forms of treatment—even when perfectly adequate from the consumer’s standpoint—become less and less available. There are powerful institutional pressures for ever more radical monopoly. At the commanding heights of the centralized state and centralized corporate economy–so interlocked as to be barely distinguishable–problems are analyzed and solutions prescribed from the perspective of those who benefit from radical monopoly.”
A workshop for Occupy Edinburgh
Sunday 6th November 2011 5pm – 6pm
Occupy Edinburgh, St Andrews Square, Edinburgh
This workshop addresses issues of marginalised voices within the Occupy Edinburgh movement, and seeks constructively to discuss the possibilities for creating a more inclusive environment and for creating space for “feminist voices”. Running for not more than 60 minutes, the workshop will start with a quick nod to some of the feeling that the Edinburgh Camp could be more inclusive. We’ll then move to a facilitated conversation about which methods to employ in order to move towards an inclusive movement, in which all genders can feel safe, comfortable, and valued. While the organizers recognize that the recent events which occurred in Glasgow may have affected some of the participants of the workshop, the purpose of this workshop is not to address issues of sexism in various protest camps, but to keep discussion focused on practical ways to affect positive change and create a safe welcoming atmosphere within this particular site of the de-centralised Occupy movement.
Topics in the workshop might include:
- Personal experiences of exclusion within Occupy Edinburgh
- The effect of autonomous organising on marginalised voices
- Potentiality of greater inclusion
- Women’s outreach – getting more women involved in the movement
- Feminist support networks within the camp
- Moving forward and creating an inclusive feminist space
The workshop organizers will conduct the workshop under a “safer spaces” policy which encourages positive and constructive discussion and debate, and asks all participants to recognize that this workshop is not the place for violent or hateful speech, intolerance, or aggressive language.
All welcome!