Is this terrorism?
So this isn’t too academic a post, but I couldn’t resist with V for Vendetta still under discussion.
This link leads to an article about an auction for a book bound in the skin in one the Guy Fawkes conspirators. Seems like it would inflict quite the psychical wound to anyone who commiserated with that fine binding.
Andrew Ragni wrote:
That simultaneously made me laugh and want to throw up.
Posted 01 Dec 2007 at 1:24 pm ¶
JakeP. wrote:
The English are a lunatic people. That’s all I’ll say.
Posted 02 Dec 2007 at 9:52 pm ¶
sean wrote:
Awesome. Guy Fawkes was the original terrorist, the one who created the paradigm: in this originary myth of terror, there are even those November 5th Conspiracy Theorists who maintain that November 5th was an inside job, created to cease and reverse the liberalization of religion that James I was leaning toward. Father Garnet (the apparent “subject” of this text) was as notorious in England of his time as OBL today: he was the supposed Jesuit inspiration for the whole plot.
But aside from that, the binding of the book in the skin of the terrorist allows the state to preserve the body of the criminal in order to enclose the text of the state’s version of the crime. It’s as though they are denying the terrorist his eventual “freedom” through death, maintaining his skin here; this is the ultimate deferral of “habeas corpus” – yeh we got the body right here.
Posted 10 Dec 2007 at 3:53 pm ¶