Un/Insurable (Moral) Risks and the AHCA

A revised version of this is now here, at the New Inquiry, re-titled “Dispensing God’s Care”

Mapping precariousness

“Encoding the Law the Household and the Standardisation Of Uncertainty,” for an edited volume on mapping precariousness.

Border Infrastructure

A collection of recent writings/discussions, all of which turn around an analysis of transformations of border control systems:

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.

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…

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.