Today, coming spring brought passing winter down to its goddamn knees. Charles Mudede
I promise to write on one of these days, and hopefully it will be cooler than today (70 degrees?), a new philosophy of property that takes into account homeless sweeps. The thing to ask is this: Can a homeless person own something? The sweeps make it clear that their status in our society excludes the rights and respect of ownership. What a homeless person has is regarded as no different from what’s in a landfill. This means a homeless person is not an individual because property is what, above all in capitalism, defines, in the abstract,
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