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It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
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Daily Archives: December 31, 2010
Perspectives from the Occupation: The Performance of Security
One of two perspectives on the Bristol University occupation which appeared on the research blog, Mała Kultura Współczesna, earlier this month.
Joanna Tidy: The Performance of Security
I am going to start by quoting part of an informal conversation I had with the head of university security towards the end of the occupation:
Me: So, perhaps the Vice Chancellor might come down and speak to us now that you know we are not…
Jerry Woods [head of security]: Terrorists.
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Perspectives from the Occupation: Encounters with Powerful Men
One of two perspectives on the Bristol University occupation which appeared on the research blog, Mała Kultura Współczesna, earlier this month.
Cerelia Athanassiou: Encounters with Powerful Men
‘The moment the people is legitimately assembled as a sovereign body, the jurisdiction of the government wholly lapses, the executive power is suspended…For in the presence of the person represented, representatives no longer exist.’ (Rousseau [1762] 2008: 92)
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