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Proliferating Limits: Capitalist Dynamics, Oikonomia and Border Technologies

Implicit or not, there persists a view of capitalism in which the border is understood as extraneous to the inherent tendencies of capital. In this, capital and the state are regarded as distinctive logics, the first inclined to overtake limits,

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Proliferating Limits: Capitalist Dynamics, Oikonomia and Border Technologies

Implicit or not, there persists a view of capitalism in which the border is understood as extraneous to the inherent tendencies of capital. In this, capital and the state are regarded as distinctive logics, the first inclined to overtake limits,

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From Precariousness to Risk Management and Beyond

The valorisation of risk and the ostensibly non-normative can be seen, perhaps most acutely, in the emergence of the subprime housing market, the derivative, in the increasing significance of the insurance industry and its speculations on death and disease, and

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From Precariousness to Risk Management and Beyond

The valorisation of risk and the ostensibly non-normative can be seen, perhaps most acutely, in the emergence of the subprime housing market, the derivative, in the increasing significance of the insurance industry and its speculations on death and disease, and

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Notes on the Frontiers and Borders of the Postcolony

On 22 June 2007, the Australian Prime Minister declared a de facto state of emergency over remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. The overt reason given for this extraordinary move was the protection of children from abuse – or,

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Notes on the Frontiers and Borders of the Postcolony

On 22 June 2007, the Australian Prime Minister declared a de facto state of emergency over remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. The overt reason given for this extraordinary move was the protection of children from abuse – or,

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Autonomy, Recognition, and Movement

In 1964 Mario Tronti began putting forward an analysis of working class autonomy that would come to be identified — and not always accurately — with an entire period and milieux of radical politics in Italy. The argument went something

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Autonomy, Recognition, and Movement

In 1964 Mario Tronti began putting forward an analysis of working class autonomy that would come to be identified — and not always accurately — with an entire period and milieux of radical politics in Italy. The argument went something

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Under the Beach, the Barbed Wire

If for a certain imaginary, the beach has often evoked a realm of authenticity hidden under the concrete strata of urban development, capitalist spectacle and exploitation, the relentlessly iconised Australian beach has, in addition, been put to use as proof

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Under the Beach, the Barbed Wire

If for a certain imaginary, the beach has often evoked a realm of authenticity hidden under the concrete strata of urban development, capitalist spectacle and exploitation, the relentlessly iconised Australian beach has, in addition, been put to use as proof

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Discipline and Labour: Sociology, Class Formation and Money in Australia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Full text, in J. Germov and T. R. McGee, eds. Histories of Australian Sociology (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press), 2005, pp.343-54.  Republished from Journal of Sociology 35, 1999, pp.77-91.

taylorism

Discipline and Labour: Sociology, Class Formation and Money in Australia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Full text, in J. Germov and T. R. McGee, eds. Histories of Australian Sociology (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press), 2005, pp.343-54.  Republished from Journal of Sociology 35, 1999, pp.77-91.