Posts Tagged: guattari

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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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The Failure of Political Theology

The concept of ‘failed states’ is ubiquitous in political idiom and theory, extending well beyond its methodical appearances in recent global security vernaculars. A review of Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony, and Forrest Hylton’s Evil Hour in Colombia. Full text,

Failed-States-Index-2010

The Failure of Political Theology

The concept of ‘failed states’ is ubiquitous in political idiom and theory, extending well beyond its methodical appearances in recent global security vernaculars. A review of Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony, and Forrest Hylton’s Evil Hour in Colombia. Full text,

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Movements Against the Enclosures: Virtual is Preamble

Much is made of the difference between ‘virtual’ and ‘actual’. Other than asserting a distinction between ‘unreal’ and the ‘real’, the uses of such oppositions demonstrates the real workings of a conflict between different approaches to and mappings of space,

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Movements Against the Enclosures: Virtual is Preamble

Much is made of the difference between ‘virtual’ and ‘actual’. Other than asserting a distinction between ‘unreal’ and the ‘real’, the uses of such oppositions demonstrates the real workings of a conflict between different approaches to and mappings of space,

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The Micro-physics of Theoretical Production and Border Crossings

If for Althusser it seemed necessary to read “to the letter” — by which he did not mean a kind of punctilious scholasticism but alertness to both overt meanings and hesitations — it was just as important to declare what

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The Micro-physics of Theoretical Production and Border Crossings

If for Althusser it seemed necessary to read “to the letter” — by which he did not mean a kind of punctilious scholasticism but alertness to both overt meanings and hesitations — it was just as important to declare what