[P2P-F] Fwd: "Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely"

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On 02/12/11 23:22, Dante-Gabryell Monson wrote:
> Thank you for this reminder.
> 
> Also , it seems that its origins come from :
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship

It will be possible trace "origins" to various moments in time,
depending on what/how you go about doing so. Agamben, whose empirical
findings (largely confined to an 11 page footnote! - which is the text
in the link) are very illuminating, in his theoretial musings traces the
state of exception back to Greek philosophy (zoe vs. bios), i.e. before
the dawn of Roman times.

So you could say that it has always been there in Western philosophy.

Some people tend to think of the current era as beginning sometime
around the French revolution or perhaps the steam
engine/industrialisation, while in Linebaugh's Nagna Carta work, the
period is stretched back to 1200, and McLuhan speaks of knights around
800 as giving shape to the "modern" townships of socialised production,
and furtermore, finance/money analysts might insist on dates with
reference to federal banking systems, gold standards, whatever - it all
depends on what you are trying to say/do/find.