Georges Bataille

‘against forces that cannot be assimilated, the state cuts matters short with strict authority’ (Bataille 1933/1997:124)

Montreal feeds

http://cutvmontreal.ca/ http://www.livestream.com/cutvmontreal and twitter http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23manifencours And mainstream headlines discussed: http://translatingtheprintempserable.tumblr.com/ (thanks Nirmala)

La Haine and Injustice double bill 6pm Goldsmiths 13.2.2012

La Haine and Injustice double bill 6pm-10pm Goldsmiths RHB 137a all welcome La Haine: dir. Mathieu Kassovitz, France, 1995, 97 mins Injustice: dir Ken Fero & Tarig Mehmood 2001, 98 mins these two screenings on police and deaths in custody in conjunction with the Centre for Cultural Studies, Capital course, Text and Image course and [...]

UC Davis Pepper Spray Surprise.

If you are gonna pull out your weapon, you gotta use it. For me, this means that there should not have been anyone arrested – those dragged off should have been retrieved. They let them off lightly – my meaning will become clear if you watch this all the way through, not just the first [...]

Match of the Day!

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Deaths in Custody March on Downing Street 29 Oct 2011

Plod Pods

The micro drone is not the only sci fi spin off boggling the goggles these days (its a hunter-seeker from Dune). This below, at first, I thought was a put up job. I thought it was mad enough to be a photo-shopped diss, but it seems all too true: as this story from Harlem, of [...]

Dan Cull ‘Riot Pron and links’

Dan Cull has done the round-up, found thanks to a ping-back, its well worth circulating, for the record, so to speak. Thanks Dan. More news anyone? Look out for the next round up which surely has to be of prisoner support, and 10,000 articles condemning the Cameron-Clegg-Milliband-Robocop repression… . riot pron and links In lieu of [...]

✪ 11 more notes on ‘the disturbances™ in London’

The first 11 notes were here. 12. It is too easy to complain that the ‘rioting’ youth are merely obsessed with trainers and plasma TV. To say this misses the point, but it is more difficult for journalists to parse the process by which circulation, valorization, exchange, value extraction, surplus labour, alienation, and the fetishism that [...]

Bouna Toure, Zyed Benna, chased by Police, and dead – comment by Abdellali Hajjat

On October 27 2005 in Paris, 15 year old Bouna Trouré and 17 year old Zyed Benna were electrocuted after taking refuge in a power station while being chased by Paris Police. “On October 27th, Bouna and Zied died of electrical burns when they fled from the police. Riots broke out in Clichy-sous-Bois and other housing estates [...]

Cameron Go Back – your policing tips are not wanted here.

✪ 11 notes on ‘the disturbances™ in London’

1. Punitive and class biased courts and police which condemn and kill the public while bonus-fat-cat bankers, expense-account scheming piggy-pollies and eavesdropping shop-your-mother-for-a-story journalists get away with it. 2. Massive jumpity-jump in hyper-profits and wealth of the super-rich while we get cuts to services, community support and local facilities, which means DIY street entertainment as [...]

[guest post] Difference within form

Tess Quixote It is easy to equate the Police absolutely with the State. This is obviously so in discursive terms. It is because this is obvious that it deserves unpacking. The uniform of the riot policeman gains mobility on the backs of said men and women, while many riot police wear such uniform in their [...]

Sunbeams and Colonial Adjustment

IRNA news agency interview: Do you think the cause of these objections in Britain is increasing university ’s fees or other issues like the government’s policy, economy and other things play role in it? Why the government officials did not fulfill their promises for fixing the fees? The unrest in Britain is described in the media as about [...]

On Violence

See University For Strategic Optimism for all your educational needs.

Lewisham Town Hall

Anti-Cuts demo earlier tonight. See here for the arguments (cops in the pic were in a quiet moment, but these are the violent ones – as quite a few of them totally lost their cool).

Trinket of choice.

I know what Emile will want for Xmas – or at least the Mattel toy that would shoot this one down. Oh what fun the boys will have. Ka-pow. (I can’t believe its not the first of April – thanks Grave. The Future is Going to Come True). Liverpool police make first mini-chopper arrest by Nick [...]

Still More Dragnets

Stopping to quiz yet another bus dragnet gang with a colleague, this time we are  referred immediately to the public relations London Transport operative ‘Dan’. This sort of discussion, reproduced below, has become a perverse kind of sport. I know it does little, and now I know the cops see public complaints as a kind of sport as well. [...]

Jean Charles de Menezes

You can read the verdict and see the press conference by the family campaign on the website at the end of this press release: Press statement from the family: Friday, 12 December 2008 Press statement by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, the campaign and their lawyers Birnberg Peirce following the jury’s verdict “Today [...]

Free Lex Wotton – Australian Injustice (International Actions)

Free Lex Wotton: Aboriginal Political Prisoner International Day of Solidarity London Rally 12 noon Thursday November 6th Australia House, Strand, WC2B 4LA On October 24th an all white jury found Lex Wotton, an Aboriginal man from Palm Island, guilty of ‘rioting with destruction’ for his involvement in the 2004 Palm Island uprising. On November 26th [...]