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Beki Mc.
is on page 320 of 443
"It was in this era that knowledge of the land itself became a kind of property: as the land was enclosed, so, too, were the exact specifications of its acreage, use and ownership fenced off from public access. But to peer over these walls of secrecy is not just an act of nosiness; it is essential to both the economy and democracy of England."
— Feb 02, 2023 06:12PM
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Beki Mc.
is on page 343 of 443
"...the manifestation of how far the property concept has come since Locke's justification: land is no longer valued for its use, but for its worth as an investment. Empty, bewitched and worthless to all but its owners, this is England."
— Feb 02, 2023 06:32PM
Beki Mc.
is on page 270 of 443
"As landlords churned the land into profit, they killed the culture of the commons."
— Feb 01, 2023 09:16PM
Beki Mc.
is on page 264 of 443
"The greatest lie of nationalism is that it defends the interests of its nationals. The people it defends, however, are not those it defines, but those who define it. Englishness has always been defined by the landed lords of England and fed in columns of hot air to the landless: you might not have land, but at least you have England."
— Feb 01, 2023 08:57PM
Beki Mc.
is on page 228 of 443
"...they are constantly thwarted by the cult of exclusion and its central hallucination: dominion. The laws of property pretend that whatever lies within the fence line is entirely unconnected to the land and communities outside of it, as if ecology can be partitioned with a neat line. Floodwater doesn't obey these legal fictions."
— Jan 31, 2023 05:29PM
Beki Mc.
is on page 218 of 443
"This is the the effect of magical architecture: to infiltrate one site with the aura of another, to be Greece, to be Rome, or Heaven itself, and yet still to be Hampshire."
— Jan 31, 2023 05:04PM
