Mapping precariousness
The first part of a chapter, titled “Encoding the Law the Household and the Standardisation Of Uncertainty,” for an edited volume on mapping precariousness.
The divergent times of prognoses and mutation
Below is part of a book review I did, the conclusion that discusses what the book did not. I wrote it a while ago, and assume it’s been held up in the journal’s editing processes. But since hearing of a friend’s diagnosis and surgery relating to cancer, I thought I’d post it here as we…
The Gift of Surplus Labour
[Excerpted from Contract & Contagion, pp.163-64] The conservative critique of capitalism is preoccupied […] with taking capitalism to task for setting up crises of its own realisation, as in the expansion of debts that cannot – or will not – be repaid. It is concerned not with the question of moving beyond the interrelated dynamics…
Infrastructure, Infra-politics
An excerpt from Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia, pp.113-18.
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.”
