Movie Pirates
Who said it? "the Code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules." (Name the character)
Captain Barbossa
This is a space, like the high seas, unbound by the concept of property where people share resources. Yet it is also always being infiltrated by the forces of empire and privatization.
The commons
A concept originally derived from Jeremy Bentham's prison design
Panopticism or panoptic power
This book discusses the ways in which capitalism continuously redefines its own rules, enfolding new codes that emerge during period of crisis such as the 2008 financial crash
The Pirate Organization (JP Vergne and Rodolphe Durand)
What do you call a pirate that has been sent on a mission by a state entity?
A corsair or privateer
In Our Flag Means Death, Stede Bonnett shows Blackbeard his secret closet after discovering his appreciation for which fine fabric?
Cashmere
Refusal, disavowal, or disengagement
This is a term that translates to "undersight" in French. It signifies the ability to "look back" at power.
Sousveillance
According to Manning Marable, America's democratic government and free enterprise capitalist system is deliberately structured around the brutal exploitation and _____ of Black people as workers and consumers
Underdevelopment
The outermost circle of obligations Cicero's "On Duties"
Human species
In Paris is Burning, this a slang term used to describe the art of the insult
Shade
Escaped slaves who resided close to the same plantations or cities they fled. They rarely established permanent communities, and subsisted through clandestine relationships on the fringe of colonial settlements.
Borderland Maroons
Under this globalized industry of surveillance, different sectors, from border and immigration forces, to foreign affairs, to the war on drugs, to local police, come together to restrict the transnational movement of persons, including both migrants and citizens with identities that don't match up with a normative social ideal of a particular national identity
Banopticon
This refers to the dissemination of racist ideas through marketing and consumer spectacle. Example: Aunt Jemima
Commodity racism
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What are two attributes that the category of pirates share in common with the category of the terrorist?
Possible answers: They both "potentiate," they are both excluded from the category of humanism, they exist through segregation and the production of internal exteriorities, they are racialized... etc
Pirate
A manifestation of doing that is on the horizon and in the future. A mode of possibility that can generate belonging
Performance or utopian performativity
The misrepresentation or erasure of particular features of a landscape or peoples on a map for strategic military or economic purposes is a form of...
cartographic violence
In this system which begins with slavery in the Americas, labor is stolen from Africa (or the global south), resources are extracted from American colonies, and capital is hoarded by a Euro-American minority.
The Plantation Economy
According to Vergne and Durand, Pirates are neither common criminals nor are they ____
Lawful enemies or belligerents
In Captain Phillips, which character watches Captain Phillips write a letter to his family?
Bilal (the 16 year old)
The path of the subversive intellectual in the modern university is to sneak in, abuse its hospitality, and _____
Best answer: steal what one can
Other accepted answers: spite its mission, join its refugee colony
This theory, which comes from Frantz Fanon, helps Simone Browne think about slave branding as a practice that ascribed certain meanings on black bodies: as goods, as runaways, and as survivors.
Epidermalization
According to Marable, this alternative to capitalism consists of the expropriation of wealth from the capitalist class, guaranteed employment, good housing, education, healthcare for all, and the expansion of social services for those in need
Socialism
Frontiers, uncharted territory
Zones of exception
A place where exceptional legal rules apply