Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Politics of "Deadwood": Lawfulness without Law

This article looks into how the Deadwood community formed its own orders/ systems without actually setting up laws, might be useful for researching the pirates' code idea.

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  1. This is awesome. Superficially it's about the show but really it describes what the show is saying to us about Deadwood-

    "Milch’s most basic point in the series is that human life is not solitary, but takes
    communal forms even in the absence of the state and in the midst of bitterly divisive
    economic and social forces. As Milch says, 'there’s an inevitability in our natures which draws us to some form of organization.'"

    I don't know how to discuss Hobbes architecturally. Or even if "architectural" is an adjective. On nights like this, I miss political science.

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