Comments on: The Chilean earthquake: urban materiality and feral cities http://www.martincoward.net/2010/03/the-chilean-earthquake-urban-materiality-and-feral-cities/ Martin Coward, Lecturer in International Politics, Newcastle University. Research and writing on: global and international politics (empire and globalisation); critical international theory (Heidegger, Nancy, Foucault); war, violence and security; genocide and ethnic nationalism; urbanisation and conflict; urban security; urbicide. Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:06:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rosa http://www.martincoward.net/2010/03/the-chilean-earthquake-urban-materiality-and-feral-cities/comment-page-1/#comment-393 Rosa Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:28:44 +0000 http://www.martincoward.net/?p=462#comment-393 I read your post about the two articles from the Guardian about Chile. I think the articles offer a compelling examination of how the state often strives to correct disruptions to the urban social sphere with military might. I think your application of Hobbesian theory in this instance is particularly useful when describing looting which is an inherent infringement of property rights. It fits well with this video. <object width="480" height="270"><param name="movie" value="http://www.newsy.com/videos/player.swf?related=http://www.newsy.com/api/get-featured-videos/10/&file=http://www.newsy.com/api/get-video/1456/&video_name="></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" allowfullscreen="true"></param><embed src="http://www.newsy.com/videos/player.swf?related=http://www.newsy.com/api/get-featured-videos/10/&file=http://www.newsy.com/api/get-video/1456/&video_name=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="270"></embed></object> You touch briefly on the impact of looting in Chile, specifically how it's perceived compared to looting in Haiti. I think the way that this is presented in the video supports your Hobbesian argument because it explores how the "state of nature" argument plays out from different class perspectives. While natural destruction has disrupted urban society in both states, and indeed both reacted the same (looting). The looted objects are different because of the pre-existing class structure and standard of living in each respective state. Newsy.com videos combine and analyze news coverage from multiple sources across media to give users comprehensive updates about global events. Newsy videos highlight bias, and explore new perspectives to make users smarter, faster. I read your post about the two articles from the Guardian about Chile. I think the articles offer a compelling examination of how the state often strives to correct disruptions to the urban social sphere with military might. I think your application of Hobbesian theory in this instance is particularly useful when describing looting which is an inherent infringement of property rights. It fits well with this video.

You touch briefly on the impact of looting in Chile, specifically how it’s perceived compared to looting in Haiti. I think the way that this is presented in the video supports your Hobbesian argument because it explores how the “state of nature” argument plays out from different class perspectives.

While natural destruction has disrupted urban society in both states, and indeed both reacted the same (looting). The looted objects are different because of the pre-existing class structure and standard of living in each respective state.

Newsy.com videos combine and analyze news coverage from multiple sources across media to give users comprehensive updates about global events. Newsy videos highlight bias, and explore new perspectives to make users smarter, faster.

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