Posts Tagged: genealogy

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Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia

Contract and Contagion presents a theoretical approach for understanding the complex shifts of post-Fordism and neoliberalism by way of a critical reading of contract, and through an exploration of the shifting politics of the household. The complex interactions of the

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Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia

Contract and Contagion presents a theoretical approach for understanding the complex shifts of post-Fordism and neoliberalism by way of a critical reading of contract, and through an exploration of the shifting politics of the household. The complex interactions of the

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Cognitive Labor, Buried Treasure, and Fictive Capital

In 1843, the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper published the winning entry in its writing competition, awarding Edgar Allan Poe the sum of $100 for his short story “The Gold-Bug.” Written in the wake of the financial collapse of 1836 and the

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Cognitive Labor, Buried Treasure, and Fictive Capital

In 1843, the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper published the winning entry in its writing competition, awarding Edgar Allan Poe the sum of $100 for his short story “The Gold-Bug.” Written in the wake of the financial collapse of 1836 and the

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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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Queer Economies and Speculative Limits

In his discussion of global modernity, Appadurai argued that “in a world in which both points of departure and points of arrival are in cultural flux,” “the invention of tradition (and of ethnicity, kinship, and other identity-markers) can become slippery.”

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Queer Economies and Speculative Limits

In his discussion of global modernity, Appadurai argued that “in a world in which both points of departure and points of arrival are in cultural flux,” “the invention of tradition (and of ethnicity, kinship, and other identity-markers) can become slippery.”

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Uncanny Robots and Affective Labour in the Oikonomia

It is not authentic human sociability that is valorised in affective labour, but the apparently genuine circulation of affect as if it is not work. Affective labour, whether paid or not, has long circulated as part of a compensatory logic,

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Uncanny Robots and Affective Labour in the Oikonomia

It is not authentic human sociability that is valorised in affective labour, but the apparently genuine circulation of affect as if it is not work. Affective labour, whether paid or not, has long circulated as part of a compensatory logic,

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Legal, Tender: The Genealogical Economy of Pride, Debt, and Origin

Capitalism is no more essentially deterritorializing than it can survive across time and extend across space without the periodic restoration of limits. Genealogy marks those limits. And it does so more emphatically, and often violently, in capitalism’s most precarious moments

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Legal, Tender: The Genealogical Economy of Pride, Debt, and Origin

Capitalism is no more essentially deterritorializing than it can survive across time and extend across space without the periodic restoration of limits. Genealogy marks those limits. And it does so more emphatically, and often violently, in capitalism’s most precarious moments

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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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Oikopolitics, and Storms

If the modern financial system is premised on the historical emergence of national debt, the late twentieth witnessed the democratization of its risks through the household. And yet, as it turns out, the dispersal of risk opened the door to

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Oikopolitics, and Storms

If the modern financial system is premised on the historical emergence of national debt, the late twentieth witnessed the democratization of its risks through the household. And yet, as it turns out, the dispersal of risk opened the door to

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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,