Mapping precariousness
“Encoding the Law the Household and the Standardisation Of Uncertainty,” for an edited volume on mapping precariousness.
Risk Archipelago, Broadspectrum and the Border Control Industry
The next edition of New Formations includes an essay of mine that has been the result of rethinking some of the key concepts in Contract & Contagion in the tumult of an almost two-year long boycott and divestment campaign directed against migration detention.
The Time of the Contract: Insurance, Contingency and the Arrangement of Risk
in South Atlantic Quarterly, 111:4, pp. 763-83 (2012).
Trading Futures, Consolidating Student Debt
Published, Mute, December 20, 2011. Also below
Uncanny Robots and Affective Labour in the Oikonomia
Full text from Cultural Studies Review, volume 18 number 1 March 2012, pp.153–73.
From Precariousness to Risk Management and Beyond
Full text, online eipcp, hardcopy of the series at Diaphanes. And in German as “Von der Prekarität zum Risikomanagement und darüber hinaus”.
In Praise of Usura
Oikopolitics, and Storms
Full text, The Global South, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 66-82.
Borders 2.0 – Future, Tense
Arrayed beyond and around the obvious walls of migration control, the architectures and technologies of the border proliferate.
The Materialisation of Race in Multiculture
Full text at darkmatter #2, Race/Matter, 2008. In Swedish as “Förkroppsliganden av ras,” Glänta 2, 2011. (pdf)
The Social SoftWar
Full text, Mute – Web 2.0, Man’s Best Friendster, 2:4, 2007.
Exceptional Times, Non-governmental Spacings, and Impolitical Movement
At the border, politics risks exposing itself to the impolitical, to a sense of movement beyond its conventional socio-political definitions, and to an expression of the political without a sovereign tone. One might say that it is this risk-which is also to say, this chance for a life otherwise-that a migratory politics seeks out. And…
