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“A Dam Against the Motion of History” - Fred Moten on Palestine & the Nation-State of Israel

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

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The Right to Exist and Defend Oneself

In this chapter, the speakers discuss the concept of rights in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They question the aggressiveness embedded in the idea of personal and national sovereignty and criticize the notion of a right to exist. They argue that concepts like the right to exist and the right to defend oneself are based on a prior assertion of the right to be aggressive and displace others.

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