Hobby Lobby and the Looting of Iraq

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Published on July 26, 2023 4:00:03 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=affKkU06esA

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Hobby Lobby tied itself to the fate of Iraq through participation in the smuggling of antiquities, and this raises a lot of interesting questions, which we'll be discussing here.
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Links to some things:
Badiou:
https://miguelabreugallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/AlainBadiou_OurWoundisNotSoRecent.pdf (It's a pdf, so maybe it won't be there forever)

Denver Museum Article:
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/01/denver-art-museum-stolen-asian-relics-cambodia-thailand-emma-bunker/

More on the artifact trade:
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/03/antiquities-looted-by-isis-end-up-in-london-shops

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/16/historical-sites-in-syria-are-being-looted-on-an-industrial-scale
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Time:
00:00 Intro
02:48 Artifacts, extraction, and ethics
13:41 The 2003 Invasion and the Iraq Museum
21:23 The Sites of Antiquity
29:00 ISIS, Heritage, and Iconoclasm
36:38 The Zoning of Iraq
47:24 Conclusion