The rich are getting second passports, citing risk of instability: The wealthy are building “passport portfolios” — collections of second, and even third or fourth, citizenships — in case they need to flee their home country.
The problem with the self-denial of white identity is not that it goes too far but that it does not go far enough: while its enunciated content seems radical, its position of enunciation remains that of a privileged universality…a »way of life« is ultimately the way of how a certain community organizes its jouissance…..in short, fundamentalist violence is a reaction for which the predominant culture is responsible….Universality is not located above particular identities, it is not their neutral container but an antagonism that cuts from within each of »way of life.«…universality is not a neutral frame elevated above particular cultures, it is inscribed into them…The conclusion that imposes itself here is: the much-maligned Western legacy is not just that of (post)colonial imperialist domination, but also that of the self-critical examination of the violence and exploitation that the West brought to the Third World. The French colonized Haiti, but the French Revolution also provided the ideological foundation to the rebellion which liberated the slaves and established the independent Haiti; the process of decolonization was set in motion when the colonized nations demanded for themselves the same rights that the West took for itself. In short, one should never forget that the West provided the very standards by means of which it (as well as its critics) measures its criminal past. - Goads and Prods
A shocking rental listing in Ontario was offering up property for people to pitch their tents on for a price in a scheme that is being called "a private encampment" and a shocking development in the province's housing crisis. - BlogTO
The notion ‘word’ (Georgian sit'q'va) is very much recognised in Georgian culture. The society is deeply literary, with the Georgian alphabet having been invented in the fourth or fifth century AD, and with texts dating from that time. Georgians have strong intuitions about what is a word, and this corresponds to orthographic practice, with few exceptions. - Cambridge
Biden cancels $7.4 billion in student debt for 277,000 borrowers
OTTAWA—Giant loopholes in Ontario’s rent control system mean tenants are paying average rent increases that are three times those allowed under the provincial rent increase guideline, a new report from the Ontario office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) shows. “Over the last decade, Ontario’s rent control guideline has allowed landlords to increase rents by 16.5 per cent,” said Ricardo Tranjan, co-author of Rent Control in Ontario: The facts, the flaws, the fixes. “Over that time, average rents have actually increased by 54.5 per cent. - Policy Alternatives
As for contradiction, it is also a concept which, if recalls, directs our discussions and our thinking in new ways and in particular to the uniqueness of new historical situations and to the limits of our own historical capacities to think them (rather than to more immediate problem solving). It seems to me that the fundamental contradiction of our moment, which subsumes all questions of ecology, class, nationalism, political forms, economic self-determination, is that of population and the unconceptualizable, unrepresentable totality of all the beings currently alive on earth. - Interview of Fredric Jameson: Hegel, Ideology and Contradiction
Out of this chaos comes and image I haven’t thought of before. - Francis Bacon
"Foreign offenders must leave Germany much more quickly. The strict deportation rules we have created must now be enforced," said minister Nancy Faeser, a Social Democrat in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's uneasy three-way coalition. "Anyone who doesn't stick to the rules must leave," she said, adding she also had zero tolerance for violent crime which was up 8.6% last year. - Reuters
It is with Hegel that this dichotomy of freedom and slavery is overthrown, and the logical possibility of transcending slavery entirely arises. For Hegel shows that the logic of the master-slave relationship necessarily transforms its constituent terms (that is, the individuals who comprise the relationship). Each moment in Hegel’s dialectic occurs independently of any disposition or goodwill on the part of its subjects. The reconciliation of the master with the slave results not from any magnanimity towards the master, but because Hegel maintains that freedom built on the subjugation of others eventually implodes – autonomous individuals need the recognition of equals to be truly free. - Review Buck-Morss: Hegel, Haiti and Universal History
Iran Refuses to Bow — Can it Afford to Stand?: The brief but militant “Hijab Protest” in the summer of 2022 exposed fissures within Iranian society that remain extant if hidden for now. The risk of those social fissures being rent asunder again is a stark one, going forward. - Consortium News
No, I think that maybe you have been missing without your knowing it all by yourself, but it’s more likely that you will just find yourself one day with someone who truly believes you are unconceptualizable.