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Les vertus de l’éloignement

Ou comment le mal du pays peut faire du bien

J’écris ces lignes sur un clavier QWERTY, une sacrée saloperie qui m’a tordu les doigts pendant plusieurs semaines. Depuis 16 mois, je vis en Angleterre. Depuis 16 mois, j’ai quitté la France et décidé de m’immerger dans une culture (pas si ?) différente. Pendant ces quelques mois, j’ai tenté autant que possible de m’intégrer dans la population anglaise : sa culture, ses préoccupations, sa langue, sa nourriture (j’ai pris 7 kilos, youpi), etc.

Malgré tout, j’ai gardé pendant mon temps ici une certaine gêne. Mon pays, mes amis, ma langue, mes petites habitudes de français me manquait. Un mal du pays partiellement atténué (ou amplifié, je suis sûr qu’il y a des études là-dessus) par les miracles de l’internet et de la 3G pas cher en Angleterre, me donnant accès a : Twitter, Facebook et autres sources d’informations plus ou moins variées, qui m’ont permis de garder un œil sur l’actualité française.

Lorsque je suis parti, cela ne faisais que quelques mois que le gouvernement de François Hollande était en place. Comprenez : les gens n’avaient pas encore trouvé contre quoi râler.

C’est donc de l’autre cote de la Manche que j’ai vu la France commencer à s’agiter, comme une entité lointaine, impersonnelle. Une curieuse bête dans une cage en verre, dont on observe les luttes avec un œil extérieur, un recul qu’il est difficile d’avoir quand ce bordel est quotidien, qu’on vous les crache à la gueule via la télé, la radio, les journaux etc.

C’est sans doute la période de ma vie ou je me suis le plus indigné, le plus politisé, le plus renseigné sur le racisme, le féminisme, l’homophobie, la transphobie et la grossophobie. Avant, c’était une espèce de malaise diffus, cette espèce de menace qui ne me concerne pas (coucou, mâle blanc cisexuel hétéro classe moyenne), et qui était largement surestimé. J’estimai que tout cela n’était que dramatisation de cas isolés et élucubrations d’extrémistes en manque d’attention.

Parce que les voix qui me parvenaient depuis la France en parlaient, et que je suis curieux. Égalitaire idéaliste, j’ai été révulsé (je pèse mes mots), lorsque j’ai découvert les harcèlements et discriminations quotidiennes vécues par les femmes, homosexuel-le-s, bi-e-s, trans, personnes racisé-e-s. Quand ce n’est pas une combinaison de tout ça (cf. intersectionalité). C’est un peu comme découvrir la blessure purulente cachée par un pansement parfumé. Si on s’approche pas, si on ne touche pas, si on ne sent pas… ma foi, tout va bien, ça va passer.

Alors que putain, non. Des voix, il y en a, en fait, si on tend l’oreille. Des arguments, y en a si on passe outre les préjugés. Des discours intelligents, y en a si on prend la peine de lire. Des injustices, il y en a si on oublie ses petits problèmes quotidiens. Des témoignages, il y en a si on est prêts a les écouter.

L’éloignement m’a fait prendre conscience de tout ça, de toutes ces luttes que je pensais trop évidentes, de ces discriminations que je pensais dépassées, de toutes ces remarques « humoristiques ».

Non, elles sont toujours là. Mais c’est décidé, ça ne passera pas par moi. Prendre la parole sur ces sujets (sans la confisquer aux victimes), ça m’aurait fait peur, sans cette grande claque reçue depuis les quatre coins du Web. Plus maintenant.

Critical Role fanart by @Mikandii

I didn’t know she’s been deported...

Simone Veil aborde pour la toute première fois sa déportation lors de l'inauguration d'un hôpital.

Puppy reacts to getting hicups!

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apparently, evangelical cartoonist Jack Chick passed away last night

let us remember him by taking a moment to laugh once again at this classic

Rogue Studies Resources

1. Masterposts

Thieves’ Cant Masterpost

Lock Picking Masterpost

Dagger/Knife Fighting Masterpost

Rogues in Fantasy Literature Masterpost

D&D 5e: Homebrew Roguish Archetypes Compendium

Building a Rogue in D&D 3.5: Collected Resources

Traps Masterpost

2. Tools

AdBlock Plus

Sci-Hub (active as of May 2018; if broken, check here for new link)

Internet Archive Digital Library

Project Gutenberg

Wikipedia

3. Bibliography 

Bandits and Outlaws

Eric Hobsbawm, Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels (1960); Bandits (1969)

Anton Blok, “The Peasant and the Brigand: Social Banditry Reconsidered”, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 14, No 4 (1972)

Eric Hobsbawm, “Social Bandits: Reply”, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 14, No 4 (1972)

Shi Nai'an, Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh (14th c.)

Stephen Basdeo, Geste of Robin Hood blog, especially the tags Robin Hood, Outlaws and Bandits

University of Rochester, The Robin Hood Project

Robin Hood Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood

Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1819)

Valérie Toureille, Vol et brigandage au Moyen Âge (2012)

Clair Hayden Bell (transl.), Peasant life in Old German epics; Meier Helmbrecht and Der arme Heinrich (1931)

This Rogue, The Bandit / Irregular / Soldier loop (2017)

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1615)

Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1818)

Charles Macfarlane, The lives and exploits of banditti and robbers in all parts of the world (1858)

John Gill, El Tempranillo (1805-1833), the Andalusian Robin Hood

Bogdan-Vlad Vătavu, “The world of the hajduks”. Bandit subcultures in 19th century Romania and their balladry (2013)

Alexander Pushkin, The Brigand Brothers (1822); Dubrovsky (1832);  Kirdjali (1834)

James J. Farsolas, Historical reality and legend in Alexander Pushkin’s short story Kirdjali (1991)

Gergana Georgieva, The Kircali Time as Metonymy

Prosper Merimée, Carmen (1845)

Edmond About, The King of the Mountains  / Le Roi des montagnes (1856)

Nathan Brown, Brigands and State Building: The Invention of Banditry in Modern Egypt (1990)

Paul Sant Cassia, Better Occasional Murders than Frequent Adulteries: Banditry, Violence and Sacrifice in the Mediterranean (2000)

Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, Land of the Kapedani: Brigandage, Paramilitarism and Nation-building in 20th Century Greece; ‘A history of violence’: Paramilitarism, politics and organized crime during the Greek civil war (1945-1949)

Billy Jaynes Chandler, King of the Mountain: The Life and Death of Giuliano the Bandit (1988)

Rogues and Vagabonds

J.J. Jusserand, English wayfaring life in the middle ages (1920)

Anonymous, Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)

Sonia T. Banerji, Sturdy rogues and wanton wenches: response to vagrancy and development of the Tudor poor laws, 1530-1597 (1995)

This Rogue, No rest for the wicked: Anti-vagrancy laws in Tudor England, 1495-1604 (2017)

William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan England (1577)

Frank Aydelotte, Elizabethan rogues and vagabonds (1913)

John Awdely, The Fraternitye of Vacabondes (1565)

Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors (1566)

Mateo Alemán, Guzmán de Alfarache (1599)

A.L. Beier, Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in Britain, 1560-1640 (1985)

Carol Moore, Poor Relief in Elizabethan England

E. B. Gent, A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew (1698)

Phil James, Moll Cutpurse: The ruler of the London underworld in the 17th century was an actor, a thief, a fraudster, a folk hero—and a woman. (2015)

Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker & Jennifer Panek, The Roaring Girl: Authrotative Text, Contexts, Criticism (2011)

Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)

John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera (1728)

Henry Fielding, An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751)

Rictor Norton, The Georgian Underworld: A Study of Criminal Subcultures in Eighteenth-Century England (2012)

James Caulfield, Blackguardiana: or, A dictionary of rogues (1793)

William Harrison Ainsworth, Jack Sheppard: A Romance (1840)

Benedict Seymour, Notes on “The Last Days of Jack Sheppard”: Capital Crimes and Paper Claims (2009)

Stephen Basdeo, Rogue Fiction tag in Geste of Robin Hood 

Urban Underworld and the City

Shawn Norris, Subura: Rome’s Original Suburb (2015)

Norman Pounds, The Medieval City (2005)

David Nicholas, The growth of the medieval city: from late antiquity to the early 14th century (1997); The later medieval city: 1300-1500 (1997)

William Benham and Charles Welch, Mediaeval London (1901)

Thomas Frederick Tout, A Mediaeval Burglary (1916)

Bronislaw Geremek, The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris (1987)

Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame / Notre Dame de Paris (1831)

La cour des miracles: Un repaire de truands, mendiants et prostituées / Les mendiants se font bandits / Ni roi, ni Dieu

unknown author, François Villon (1431–1463)

François Villon, Œuvres complètes; Poems (transl.‎ David Georgi, 2012)

Mike Dash, Islam’s Medieval Underworld (2013)

C. E. Bosworth, The Mediaeval Islamic Underworld: The Banū Sāsān in Arabic Society and Literature (1976) 

John Freely, Istanbul: The Imperial City (1998)

Fariba Zarinebaf, Crime and punishment in Istanbul 1700-1800 (2010)

Peter Linebaugh, Tyburn: a study of crime and the labouring poor in London during the first half of the eighteenth century (1975)

PBS.org, 18th Century London: its daily life and hazards

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Black London: Life before Emancipation (1995)

Anonymous, The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1886)

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838)

Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, Volume IV: Those that will not work, comprising; Prostitutes. Thieves. Swindlers. Beggars. (1861)

Heather Shore, Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London (1999); London’s Criminal Underworlds, c.1720-c.1930: A Social and Cultural History (2015)

Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography (2000); London Under (2011)

Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (1928)

Craig Gemeiner, The Dirty Tricks of the French Apache

Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (1928); Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic (1964)

Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century, Chapter 1. What Keeps Mankind Alive? (2009)

This Rogue, Epitaph (Ballad in Which Macheath Begs All Men For Forgiveness), and The Threepenny Opera censored (2016)

Jarrod Tanny, City of Rogues and Schnorrers: The Myth of Old Odessa (2011)

Isaac Babel, Odessa Tales (1926)

Roberto Arlt, The Mad Toy (1926); The Seven Madmen (1929); The Flame-Throwers (1931)

Jorge Luis Borges, A Universal History of Infamy (1935)

Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers / Notre Dame des Fleurs (1943); The Thief’s Journal (1949)

Darrell J. Steffensmeier, The Fence (1986)

Deborah Lamm Weisel, Contemporary Gangs: An Organizational Analysis (2002)

Geoff Manaugh, A Burglar’s Guide to the City (2016)

Various, The Story of Cities series / The Guardian (2016)

David Harvey, The right to the city (2008)

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)

H.G. Wells, “The probable diffusion of great cities”, in Anticipations (1901)

Allan Jacobs, Great Streets (1993)

K. Michael Hays (ed.), Architecture Theory since 1968 (1998)

City-Building, City Structure Models (2014)

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1972)

Prisons and Gallows

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975); On the Role of Prisons (1975)

Andrew Dilts, To Kill a Thief: Punishment, Proportionality, and Criminal Subjectivity in  Locke’s Second Treatise (2012)

Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I, Vols. I & II (1898)

Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture (2005)

Guy Geltner, A Cell of Their Own: The Incarceration of Women in Late Medieval Italy (2013)

Guy Geltner, Isola non isolata. Le Stinche in the Middle Ages (2008)

William Andrews, Bygone Punishments (1899)

Stefanos Daskalakis, The Imaginary Prisons of Piranesi (2017)

Uwe Böker, Title-pages and Frontispieces of Popular Accounts and Newgate Calendars (1600-1870) (2007)

The Newgate Calendar (1740-1842)

David Whitehouse, Origins of the police (2014)

Jacky Tronel, Le ferrement des forçats au départ de la prison de Bicêtre (2014)

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (1897); The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897)

Jean Genet, The Miracle of the Rose / Miracle de la Rose (1946)

Hanns von Hofer, Punishment and Crime in Scandinavia, 1750–2008 (2011)

Tom Murton & Joe Hyams, Accomplices to the crime: the Arkansas prison scandal (1969)

Erwin James, The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people (2013)

Elisabeth de Kleer, Dragons in the Department of Corrections (2017)

ExecutedToday.com

Corsairs and Pirates

Philip Gosse, The History Of Piracy (1932)

Colin Woodard, The Republic of Pirates (2007) 

Joris Leverink, Pirates, Peasants and Proletarians (2016)

David Cordingly, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (1995)

Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates (1724)

Daniel Defoe, The king of pirates: being an account of the famous enterprises of Captain Avery (1719)

John Rattenbury, Memoirs of a Smuggler (1837)

Charles Ellms, The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers (1837)

Anonymous, Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy (18??)

Joshua Michael White, Catch and Release: Piracy, Slavery, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean (2012)

Adrian Tinniswood, Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean (2010)

Stanley Lane-Poole, The Story of the Barbary Corsairs (1890)

Lord Byron, The Corsair (1814)

Molly Greene, Catholic pirates and Greek merchants: A maritime history of the Mediterranean (2010)

C. R. Pennell, The geography of piracy: northern Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century

Ernle Bradford, The Sultan’s Admiral: The life of Barbarossa (1968)

Peter Earle, Corsairs of Malta and Barbary (1970)

Highwaymen

Gillian Spraggs, Outlaws and Highwaymen: Robbery in English Society and Culture (2001)

Bret McCabe, Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground (2015)

Alexander Smith, A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts, & Cheats of Both Sexes (1714)

Patrick Parrinder, Highway Robbery and Property Circulation in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives

Robert Hopps, Narratives of Crime and Disorder. Representations of Robbery and Burglary in the London Press, 1780-1830 (2017)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)

Stephen Basdeo, Highwaymen tag in Geste of Robin Hood

OutlawsAndHighwaymen.com

Mafia and Organised Crime

Kelly Barksby, Constructing criminals: the creation of identity within criminal mafias (2013)

Filippo Spadafora, Origins of the Sicilian Mafia (2010)

This Rogue, Mafia Lore: Honour and Blood (2016)

Mario Puzo, The Godfather (1969)

Pino Arlacchi, Mafia Business: The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1988)

Letizia Paoli, Italian Organised Crime: Mafia Associations and Criminal Enterprises (2004)

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection (1993)

John Dickie, Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (2004)

Henner Hess, Mafia and Mafiosi (1998)

Marco Gasparini, The Mafia: History and Legend

Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (1995)

Mark Bowden, Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw (2001)

Rebels and Illegalists

Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt / L'homme révolté (1951)

The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt (2016)

Rodney Hilton, Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 (1973)

Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (1978)

Juliet Barker, 1381: The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt (2014)

Vincent Challet, La révolte des Tuchins: banditisme social ou sociabilité villageoise? (1998)

Steven Attewell, Revolt From Below – The Impact of the Smallfolk on the Game of Thrones (2016)

This Rogue, Stealing back the commons (2017)

Eric Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, aka Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels (1959); Bandits (1969); Cities and Insurrections (1975)

Bernard Thomas, The Lives of Sailor, Thief, Anarchist, Convict Alexandre Marius Jacob (1879-1954) (2013)

Jean-Marc Delpech, Parcours et Réseaux d'un Anarchiste: Alexandre Marius Jacob, 1879-1954 (2006)

Richard Parry, The Bonnot Gang: The story of the French illegalists (1987)

Doug Emrie, The illegalists (1995)

Chris Ealham, Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937 (2005)

Antonio Tellez, Sabaté, Guerilla Extraordinary / La Guerriglia Urbana in Spagna: Sabaté (1974)

Klaus Schönberger, VaBanque: Bankraub - Theorie, Praxis, Geschichte (2000)

Evan Johnston, The wonderful world of bossnapping

Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book (1971)

lse Biel, Zapatista Materiality Disseminated: A Co-Construction Reconsidered (2012)

Mike Duncan, Revolutions Podcast

Other

Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World (1965)

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)

Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness (1932)

Paul Lafargue, The Right To Be Lazy (1883)

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

Joseph L Goldstein, The card players of Caravaggio, Cézanne and Mark Twain (2011)

Martin C. Langeveld, Confidence: A natural history of the con man (2007)

Luke Owen Pike, A history of crime in England, Vols.I & II (1873)

Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (1987)

Karl Marx, “Apologist Conception of the Productivity of All Professions”, in Theories of Surplus Value (1863)

Rachel Shteir, The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting (2011)

Linda Stratmann, The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder (2016)

Charles Mackay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)

Jason Porath, Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics (2016)

This blog’s theory tag

And Greek bibliography here.

Getting salt from gamer boys in my inbox.

Listen up turd turrets, I WANTED to just play video games, I WANTED to just have fun, I NEVER wanted my gaming to be political or a struggle, I just wanted to play.

But you wouldn’t fucking let me, you brought up my gender, you judged me based on it, YOU made it political.

So now I WILL wreck everything with my fucking feminism, I am the feminist nightmare you fucking created.

Witness me.