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title: A Post-Libertarian Realpolitik
subtitle: My talk at the Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 2017 (HCPP17) conference in Prague on October 8, 2017.
date: '2017-10-08T15:00:00Z'
dateEnd: '2017-10-08T16:00:00Z'
event: Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 2017 (HCPP17)
eventUrl: https://liberate.hcpp.cz/#speaker_arto-bendiken
location: Prague, Czechia
tags:
- technology
- politics
- psychology
- history
summary: My talk at the Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 2017 (HCPP17) conference.
abstract: We as libertarians often maintain that the state is a fiction, sometimes a consensual one. But what if the notion of rights is equally a fiction, too? We will examine a realpolitik perspective on how individual autonomy was curtailed historically and what a posited rising marginal cost of oppression means for the future of liberty.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbSRl3iWNIk
slides: https://speakerdeck.com/arto/a-post-libertarian-realpolitik
pdf: https://speakerd.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/d117b9bf25b94780a7bfeccb1e7da9ef/A_Post-Libertarian_Realpolitik.pdf
image: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artob/ar.to/master/src/content/talks/2017/10/talk-at-hcpp17.jpg"
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