So there have been a few projects ongoing, though few postings on the blog. In lieu of that, a linkdump of sorts. Continue reading
Infrastructure, Infra-politics
An excerpt from Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia, pp.113-18.
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Auto-immunisation
Since I had few insights as to why Neilson and Mezzadra would feel entitled to use key concepts and theories from Contract & Contagion (2012) without citation, I looked at their book, Border As Method (2013). Continue reading
Why theorise contract?
I was asked why I wrote about the contract in Contract & Contagion. Continue reading
Debt servitude, service work, oikos
Below is the bare-bones of the paper I did for the recent ASA conference on debt, oikos and service. The argument in that is drawn from C&C, but it’s an argument that I’ve become more sure of since, particularly with the recent wave of occupations at Sussex University against the privatisation of catering, and more recently the COSAS strike at the University of London. Aaron Bastani has a good article in the Guardian on the last few days at Sussex and the U of London.
Complexity, single-celled socialism and neo-fascism
There seems to be some confusion about what ‘complexity’ means in both philosophy and science, but also in radical political theory. Continue reading
