"#Stiegler - It seems appropriate someho..." 02mytwi01: RT @sdv_duras - () It seem... Concrete rules, differences & equivalences (#Stiegler -) 02mytwi01: RT @RosaManueal - What rig... Sentencing the rioters. By Susan Easton In the wake of the recent riots, much attention has been given to the causes of the riots but an issue now at the forefront of press and public concern is the level of punishment being meted out to those convicted of riot-related offences.
Reports of first offenders being convicted and imprisoned for thefts of items of small value have raised questions about the purposes of sentencing, the problems of giving exemplary sentences and of inconsistency, as well as the issue of political pressure on sentencers. The government has been emphasising the need for harsh punishment for riot-related offences and this has been reflected in some very severe sentences for offenders with no previous convictions, including young offenders, and where offenders have pleaded guilty.
The effect of this disparate response is damaging to the legitimacy of the criminal justice system but is also short sighted. View more about this book on the. #Intvw #londonriots #UK - 02myReactAct_201108_no01. #neolib_sm #authoritarianism #neofeud_sm- 02mySocDev03_2011Aug. Vom Neoliberalismus zum Autoritarismus | UK - Ungarn. "[...]As William Wall argues, we are living in neoliberal times, in which stru..." As William Wall argues, we are living in neoliberal times, in which structural inequalities are at their highest since the 19th Century, and we should begin to articulate these riots in this context; as Zygmunt Bauman pointed out ‘these are riots of defective and disqualified consumers’; or as Laurie Penny aptly argues, they are about grasping some power or rebalancing the balance of power.
These are all thoughtful reflections to articulate the riots. They are all commendable, as are the videos of the Hackney Afro-Caribbean woman and the Darcus Howe interview. I am certain that, in times of discontent, we all gather our knowledge and experience to address the present, and expertise is not necessarily a required skill. We have all heard strangers on the tube or the bus opening up to each other, trying to share their experiences and understanding of these days. Here is an approximation of the story. Critlegthinking: 'Riots and Ineloquence' Cr... 02mytwi01: From #neoliberalism to #au... Critical Legal Thinking › Riots and Ineloquence. In Nicholas Ray’s 1955 Rebel without a cause we follow the protagonist Jim Stark (James Dean) into delinquency. In this film, Nicholas Ray and the scriptwriter, Stewart Stern, set out to portray the life of the contemporary American teenager.
The story is organized around Jim, recently arrived with his parents in a Los Angeles suburb in the hope that their son will conform and lose his rebellious streak and take ‘a right step in the right direction’. But Jim manages to get into trouble quickly. After being challenged by Buzz, the popular Kid in town, to a ‘chickie run’ (two drivers of stolen vehicles drive toward a cliff; the one that jumps out first is considered to be a chicken i.e., a coward and not a man), Jim finds himself surviving, while Buzz plunges off the cliff and dies.
Against his parents’ advice, Jim goes to the police to report the event, but, not finding Ray, the sympathetic officer he knows, he leaves. Riots updated: Sennett, Rykwert, Till, de Botton, Tavernor and more on why Britain is burning | News | Architects Journal. Riots updated: Sennett, Rykwert, Till, de Botton, Tavernor and more on why Britain is burning. UK Riots & Poverty Put on a Google Map. “These riots were not about poverty,” England’s Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday. But thanks to publicly available data, free services like Google Maps and Web collaboration, statements like that are now more fact-checkable than ever. Or at least the discourse can get more complicated easier than before. London’s data-loving Guardian newspaper did just that this morning, mapping out the data about riot locations and the home addresses of people arrested in the riots.
Those data were then put against socioeconomic information regarding particular neighborhoods. The conclusion? At least in some parts of the UK, it seems pretty clear that riot participants came from impoverished areas and acted in less poor places. Liverpool University urban planning lecturer Alex Singleton looked at the data and concluded: I think this is a fascinating way to look at a major news event! "[...]the riots are a political catastrophe, too. The right was already the gr..." 02mytwi01: RT @mosabou - The riots ar... The riots are a catastrophe | LabourList.org 2.0.2 | LabourList.org. By Owen Jones / @owenjones84 The riots are a catastrophe. They are a catastrophe for communities traumatised by looting, arson and petrol bombs – in many cases, such as Tottenham and Hackney, among the poorest areas in Britain.
“It’s poor people like who suffer because of these riots,” one young woman told me just off Mare Street – where the worst of Monday’s rioting in Hackney took place – her obviously shaken child clutching her leg. They are a catastrophe for residents of London, Birmingham, Manchester and elsewhere, who feel terrorised in their own cities and even besieged in their own homes. Like all Londoners, I was pretty anxious on Monday as I cycled through Hackney at 10pm.
There is a disconcerting feeling that trouble could flare up anywhere, at any time. Normal life still feels suspended. They are a catastrophe for those who took part in the rioting and looting. But the riots are a political catastrophe, too. This is far from an unpredictable consequence. The Interrupters: Doku-Trailer über Streetworker in Chicago. The Interrupters: Doku-Trailer über Streetworker in Chicago. Slavoi Zizek - on the riots in UK 201108. Slavoj Žižek - on the riots in UK 201108 - Shoplifters of the World Unite · LRB 19 August 2011. Repetition, according to Hegel, plays a crucial role in history: when something happens just once, it may be dismissed as an accident, something that might have been avoided if the situation had been handled differently; but when the same event repeats itself, it is a sign that a deeper historical process is unfolding. When Napoleon lost at Leipzig in 1813, it looked like bad luck; when he lost again at Waterloo, it was clear that his time was over.
The same holds for the continuing financial crisis. In September 2008, it was presented by some as an anomaly that could be corrected through better regulations etc; now that signs of a repeated financial meltdown are gathering it is clear that we are dealing with a structural phenomenon. We are told again and again that we are living through a debt crisis, and that we all have to share the burden and tighten our belts.
All, that is, except the (very) rich.