A revised version of this is now here, at the New Inquiry, re-titled “Dispensing God’s Care”
Tag: risk
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. Continue reading
Border Infrastructure
A collection of recent writings/discussions, all of which turn around an analysis of transformations of border control systems: Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Spinoza’s joint-stock theory of the affects
Spinoza’s understanding of the affects can illuminate much, but I do not think it amounts to a critical or radical politics of the affective. So while I finish a post on the politics of affect that is more to do with current theories and politics around affect, I thought I would reiterate some of the argument in C&C, but that I discuss further in another essay, “Spinoza’s Affections.”
The Law of Value, Capitalist Spirits and Financialized Bonds
[This is the abstract to the second and forthcoming essay in the series on financial bonds.
The Futures Trading of Social Benefit Bonds
[The intro of a text co-authored with Dick Bryan (forthcoming)]
Social benefit bonds, otherwise referred to as social impact bonds, are a very recent innovation in the fields of social policy and finance. Continue reading
The Time of the Contract: Insurance, Contingency and the Arrangement of Risk
in South Atlantic Quarterly, 111:4, pp. 763-83 (2012).
Queer Economies and Speculative Limits
Paper for MLA Queering Value Panel, January 6th, 2012 (Seattle).
Uncanny Robots and Affective Labour in the Oikonomia
Full text from Cultural Studies Review, volume 18 number 1 March 2012, pp.153–73. Continue reading
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”.
Oikopolitics, and Storms
Full text, The Global South, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 66-82. Continue reading
