Common-being is political constitution and why all political formations are unstable and why no power is absolute.
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Karl Polanyi writes of a particular kind of institutionalized violence and political conflict endemic to the liberal project of remaking institutions under the rule of the laissez faire market ideal which has as its main pillars three “fictitious commodities”:…
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William Petty (1623–1687), author of Political Arithmetick, father of demography and political economy and to that extent, the modern-Herculean social sciences, calculates a raison d’etat, for the very first time, thus: “the fertility of women in New England would…
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Time then to meet Hercules, another character in our story. Here are the essentials: “The classically educated architects of the Atlantic economy found in Hercules—the mythical hero of the ancients who achieved immortality by performing twelve labors—a symbol of power…
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For me, the Hydra is a narrative character since one of the tasks is to change the stories we tell. A key point of departure is Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker’s important book, The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners…
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To re-search is therefore also to re-cycle. Made for a collective research probe into the history and cultural logic of calendars, this time bias poem is a device for plotting the intersection of history and biography. The game-poem invites one…
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Since the topic of common-being everywhere risks reification into metaphysics, I might as well begin in the spirit of Brecht with the body laid low in its mundane materials: consumption, digestion, waste in its singularity which is neither the opposite…
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