Posts Tagged: oikonomia

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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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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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Trading Futures, Consolidating Student Debt

Do denunciations of debt servitude imply a critique of the indentured labour that debt obliges or do they merely demand its reallocation according to the seemingly natural lines of race, gender and class? Debt includes a salient instance of speculation

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Trading Futures, Consolidating Student Debt

Do denunciations of debt servitude imply a critique of the indentured labour that debt obliges or do they merely demand its reallocation according to the seemingly natural lines of race, gender and class? Debt includes a salient instance of speculation

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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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Economies of Race, Queer Households and the Crisis

For fascists, Keynesians and socialists of various persuasions, capitalism is bad when it extends credit to those who cannot – or, worse: will not – repay the debt. That is, capitalism is not bad because it’s exploitative, but because (in

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Economies of Race, Queer Households and the Crisis

For fascists, Keynesians and socialists of various persuasions, capitalism is bad when it extends credit to those who cannot – or, worse: will not – repay the debt. That is, capitalism is not bad because it’s exploitative, but because (in

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Household Frontier

The frontier, and the empire that presupposes it, are a complex mix of reinscription and indeterminacy. By definition and in practice, this is the problem of empire. In debates over what is the same and what is new, and in

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Household Frontier

The frontier, and the empire that presupposes it, are a complex mix of reinscription and indeterminacy. By definition and in practice, this is the problem of empire. In debates over what is the same and what is new, and in

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In Praise of Usura

In the heady maelstrom of official and tripled declarations of crisis – not least, that of subprime – there are some notable phrases doing the rounds. With a recycled air of self-evidence, we have all heard of green new deals,

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In Praise of Usura

In the heady maelstrom of official and tripled declarations of crisis – not least, that of subprime – there are some notable phrases doing the rounds. With a recycled air of self-evidence, we have all heard of green new deals,

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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