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Monthly Archives: August 2005

Pirate Democracy

Friday, August 26, 2005

Apologies to whoever actually looks at this: I have been out of town since Sunday in (what appears as counter-intuitive) to prepare to move. Computer access — and the desire to write anything — has been intermittent at best. What is ‘at best’, however, is the factory outlet at Hershey’s in Smith Falls. After picking [...]

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Pirates, Terrorists, Homo Sacer

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Jon Beasley-Murray wrote a few weeks ago, “it is the terrorists who are the inheritors of piracy’s historic tradition.” It is surprising that it has taken this long for attention to be drawn to the similarities between pirates of the early modern era to terrorists of the postmodern era — or, perhaps, the similarity is [...]

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Yeah, right!

Friday, August 19, 2005

This is an attempt to do the near impossible: make a post! Clearly, this will be deleted as soon as I have something of great, great consequence to say. Don’t hold your breath!

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