This is a short reflection on an insightful passage from Aristotle's Politics, where he raises the idea of a person who so clearly excels everyone else around them in virtue that it seems strange to have them governed by others. He suggests that such a person is a law unto themself, and that if you're fortunate enough to have such a person, they ought to be given authority.

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Aristotle - People Who Excel As Laws Unto Themselves - Sadler's Shorts

Polis Torus: The Political Doughnut Theory 

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Polis Torus: The Political Doughnut Theory

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 84

"Communism marries a truth to a lie." -Julie Behling, author of Beneath Sheep's Clothing (https://amzn.to/3UDPwtc) and director of a forthcoming documentary (http://beneathsheepsclothing.movie) by the same title.

One of the most basic truths about how Marxism works is that it marries a truth to a lie. Another way that has been put is that "every Woke term conceals an agenda" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/05/woke-terms-conceal-agendas). In order to combat Woke Marxism, then, it is crucial that we learn to pull apart the truth and the lie and to expose the manipulation involved. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay takes you through the principle and almost a dozen examples of how it works in practice. He then assigns you homework: go practice this skill for yourself!

NB: Some of these ideas and tactics are also covered in detail in James's volume with Charles Pincourt, Counter Wokecraft: https://amzn.to/4bIlGJX

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Communism Marries a Truth to a Lie

The 2024 Laureate Achille Mbembe in conversation with Hlonipha Mokoena. 

Achille Mbembe is research professor of history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits).

Hlonipha Mokoena is professor and acting Co-Director at WiSER, Wits University.

The interview was conducted at Wits University, on 13 March, 2024.

Achille Mbembe receives the 2024 Holberg Prize for his pioneering research in African history, postcolonial studies, humanities, and social science over four decades

Interview with 2024 Holberg Laureate Achille Mbembe

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The Political Problem - Add On #2

New Discourses Bullet, Ep. 92

There's an old saying about Communists that applies to all militant ideologies: they are good at conquest and bad at management. That's only half of the story. The fact is that because of their cult-religious nature, various strains of Communism aren't just bad at management; they're completely disinterested in management. That is, they don't want to make things work; they just want to control people and institutions to make more Communists. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains the ideas behind that simple summary of Communist behavior. Join him to learn why Communists don't know how and won't ever know how.

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Communists Are Good At Conquest

Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned for 25 years on the island prison of Imrali, with the last three and a half years spent in complete isolation. This talk from 1st of October in GT22, Maribor with Dr. Müslüm Örtülü (Kurdish center of Public relations - Civaka Azad) sheds light on the abduction and imprisonment of Öcalan and the torture practices of the Turkish state, linking Öcalan’s situation to the broader policies against the Kurdish people. Furthermore, in response to his imprisonment, it discusses the paradigm of Democratic Confederalism as Öcalan’s proposition for a democratic solution, that has been put into practice in Rojava and other parts of Kurdistan.

#149: Rojava, lection 4 - Free Öcalan

Welcome back! You’re listening to the first episode of the 5th season of IMISCOE’s Migration Podcast. 

If you’re listening for the first time: IMISCOE is the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration and integration, with 69 member institutes and over 1400 scholars from all over the world. And this is the network’s podcast, where we hear migration researchers talk about their latest research and why it matters. 

As in the past seasons, we have an amazing team of interviewers who are migration scholars themselves. And this season, you’ll hear more episodes with them talking to 2 or more researchers who are working on similar themes, together.

The conversation you'll hear is about concepts in migration governance that are often taken for granted – but when you dig a bit deeper, or wider, like the researchers in this episode have done, it’s clear that not everyone has the same idea of what they really mean or their implications in practice. 

You’ll hear Liberty Chee speaking to Eleonora Milazzo, who has been working on what exactly “solidarity” means between European Union Member States when it comes to the asylum system. We may have a sense that so far, it’s been “failing”, but what does solidarity really mean in practice?

Ulrike Bialas also joins the conversation, to talk about her research on how age classification determines the lives of young asylum seekers in Germany. How do they experience this legal focus on age, especially when many do not actually have documents that can prove their dates of birth and may not know them, anyways. 

I also found the practical challenges of conducting their research, that both Elenora and Ulrike talk about, particularly interesting. Just a last note: both of them talk about research to do with migration governance in Europe, and both mention “the Dublin System”. In case you need a refresher: the Dublin System is made up of several procedures that determine responsibility for assessing asylum claims in EU Member States.  

Further readings:
Bialas, Ulrike. 2023. Forever 17: Coming of Age in the German Asylum System. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Bialas, Ulrike. 2023. "Ambiguous Ages, Ambivalent Youths: How Asylum Seekers in Germany Navigate Age Categorization." Migration Politics 2, no. 1: 003.

Bialas, Ulrike. 2024. "Who is a minor? Age assessments of refugees in Germany and the classificatory multiplicity of the state." Ethnic and Racial Studies: 1-23.

Bialas, Ulrike, Johanna M. Lukate, and Steven Vertovec. 2024. "Contested categories in the context of international migration: introduction to the special issue." Ethnic and Racial Studies: 1-23.

Milazzo, E. (2024). Refugee Protection and Solidarity. The Duties of EU Member States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/refugee-protection-and-solidarity-9780192885715?cc=be&lang=en&# 


Also have a look at the Migration Research to Policy Co-Lab https://migrationresearchtopolicy.eu/  





Ep.1(S5):Dublin, solidarity and age. How do these factors matter in the EU asylum system?

This week we’re exploring the relationship between religion and violence. What are the circumstances in which organisations motivated by religious ideas resort to violent methods? And how can such violence best be prevented?

The relationship between religion and violence is a subject of enduring debate. Religion is often portrayed as a force for peace and compassion. Yet history is littered with instances where religious actors have been involved in conflict. What conditions make religious organizations more likely to engage in violence? And what lessons can policymakers learn to prevent it? 

In this episode, Prof Alan Renwick dives into these questions with Dr. Manuel Vogt, Associate Professor of International Security at UCL. Drawing on new research, he explores how both global forces and local factors shape the relationship between religion and violence. 

Mentioned in this episode: Pischedda, C., & Vogt, M. (2023). 
When Do Religious Organizations Resort to Violence? 
How Local Conditions Shape the Effects of Transnational Ideology. 
Ethnopolitics

Transcription link:
https://ucl-uncovering-politics.simplecast.com/episodes/when-does-religion-beget-violence/transcript

Date of episode recording: 2025-02-06T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:34:1
Language of episode: English UK
Presenter:Alan Renwick
Guests: Manuel Vogt
Producer: Eleanor Kingwell-Banham

When Does Religion Beget Violence?

Hans-Hermann Hoppe not only shows how democratic elections often lead to bad results, but illustrates how political democracy often leads to the deterioration of wealth and liberty.

Monarchy versus the Failure of Democracy | Hans-Hermann Hoppe

It's official we are heading into the biggest shit-show in human history. The U.N says there is no ‘credible pathway’ to staying under 1.5C (October 2022). Revolution is now inevitable, a great danger and a great opportunity to create a new revitalised democracy, or allow fascism to drag us all into hell.

Far from it being the end it's just the beginning, there's everything to play for but only if we organise and resist as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.

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Maribor Is The Future je interdisciplinarni umetniški podcast, ki nastaja v skupnosti GT22 in z njeno pomočjo. Dotika se področij filma, gledališča, intermedijske umetnosti, izobraževanja, teorije in dobrih praks. Redno je predvajan tudi na Radiu MARŠ, ponavadi ob ponedeljkih ob 21. uri.

Maribor Is The Future is an interdisciplinary art podcast created in the GT22 community in Maribor and with the help of its members. It touches on the fields of film, theater, intermedia art, education, theory and good practice. It is also regularly broadcasted on Radio MARŠ, usually on Mondays at 9 pm.

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UCL is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 13,000 staff and 43,000 students from 150 different countries. Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, UCL was the first university in England to welcome students of any religion and the first to welcome women on equal terms with men.

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Timothy Darrell Young B.S., M.P.A., of Oregon, considers himself a "targeted individual," and can and has proven it. Tim is a Mk-Ultra Synthetic Telepathy slave and lives a life of nearly constant torture, is 43 this 2022 and has had attempts on his life and has survived. Tim grew up in Lake Oswego, Oregon and went to Lakeridge H.S., Portland State University, University of Oregon. He still tries to live a life well lived, meaning being gifted with being smart, working hard to be well educated and living long enough to become wiser.

Tim has a lot of personal interests including music, writing, games, reading, outdoor activities, science, technology, psychology, sociology, the arts, philosophy, religion, economics, anthropology, history, literature, watching comedies, quantum physics, the cosmos, the sciences in general and loves comedy as a coping mechanism for his tragic life.

He served as a write-in student body president in college and became targeted for torture for his political activism and was an unwitting mind control experiment object for torture. Tim now is witting or knowing or aware he is being abused in a psychotronic secret war, enslavement, coup, false deification, that is sadly world-wide. Tim is a victim of menticide.

Academic Credentials:

Masters of Public Administration, University of Oregon 2005
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Targeted Individual #060506. You, we, were never living in the "real world" and that is a billions to one mathematical fact, not "religion" or philosophy or the rantings of a 3 kinds of mad, man. #PraiseBuddha #HiChristians! #TIRights I am djgreygoo #DJGreyGoo DJGreyGoo DJ Grey Goo @DJGreyGoo DJMC³ = Disk Jockey * Devil Jouster✝☸️Jabber * Dark Journalist + Masters Certified * Mind Controlled :-( * Master of Ceremonies.

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I am tortured by Silent Assignation Through Adaptive Networks, otherwise known by the C.I.A. as S.A.T.A.N. This is literally, according to the Mind Hacking Strategy Group.

Further, Jesus was merely, only, to the maximum of his extent abnormally psychologically grandiose along with all who claim to be God or Son of God, in a billions to one proven to be virtual reality cosmos. It's a fake cosmos; all are also false gods within our fake cosmos - by definition. Those fake gods are likely very problematic by nature as are those who are also diagnose-able as grandiose.

I'm a poor Buddhist, aspirating Arhat, slandered, remote control tortured, framed, manipulated, exploited, enslaved Targeted Individual in the U.S.A. and has been being criminally perpetuated against me since before 2004. U.S.A. federal government public and private partnerships for organize torture have been worse than nuclear weapons, qualitatively and quantitatively for the other 1.5 million American T.I. and I out of 330 million Americans.

Tortures of me began many times a minute during the second Bush Admin. installment in Eugene, Oregon. The Republic is long lost - very seriously to covert mind control. We have a robotized human population that doesn't know it is being robotized and that doesn't not want to be robotized.

I plan to head toward the center of the Milky Way Galaxy after death searching for Red Dwarf Star civilizations that won't and don't secretly robotize their populations for and by, evil defined - as is the case here on Earth truthfully.

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The field of migration and mobility studies is vast and has grown exponentially over the past decades. To make sense of the movement of people, this podcast explores migration and mobility research globally. Providing a platform for migration scholars to speak about their projects, ideas and insights, The IMISCOE Migration Podcast aims to publicize what happens inside universities around the world. This is a podcast by the research community for everyone interested in knowing more about academic research on migration. 

Download or subscribe to hear about new books, or listen to one of our episodes in which we speak to scholars about ideas that changed how we think about migration. 

Team for season 5:
Production: 
Kate Dearden 

Team & Programming Coordinators: 
Milena Belloni, Roos Derrix, Mark Marvin Kadigo

Financial Administration & Engagement: 
Asya Pisarevskaya

Interviews: 
Amanda Paz Alencar, Liberty Chee, Silindile Mlilo, Itzel Eguiluz, Samanwita Paul

Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.

New tracks tagged #Political Theory