Pirate Ships = The Cradle of Democracy

Jul 11, 2007 02:02


From The New Yorker... via Disinfo.com

The Pirates’ Code
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adayinthelife July 11 2007, 13:45:43 UTC
yargh! i thought that was pretty neat, too. here's another pretty piradical piece if you haven't seen it:

http://anthropik.com/2006/07/a-pirates-life-for-me/

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voltronscandide July 11 2007, 21:36:52 UTC
Ah, yeah. Bey. Mmmmm... I was going to mention how he was all about the pirate culture as proto-anarchist collectives, before the Disney Corp. kinda coopted the whole Pirate current and you could buy anything with a skull & crossbones on it...

The T.A.Z. is definitely his best. I love that book. I was hoping his "Pirate Utopias" written as Peter Lamborn Wilson, would carry on with and evolve some of the TAZ ideas, but it was more of a scholarly attempt to identify actual pirate cities, etc. and I felt like it got bogged down in too many details.

The article you linked to is a really good review/intro to all these ideas. Thanks. I have more to say, but the wife just got home and I have to go interact and socialize with people in the immediate vicinity.... Later....

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