°When the ground shakes

September 27, 2009

From the UC Santa Cruz occupation. (A much better slogan than “We won’t pay for your crisis” methinks - and “No return to normal” is particularly good too.) Read the “Communiqué from an Absent Future”.

Filed under: Protest + Laboratories + Universities
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°Liquefaction

September 22, 2009

… there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon a parchment should convey the dominion of land; why the son should have a right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so, before him … - William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769).

And here’s a pdf for the frontier household piece.

Filed under: Biowar + Laboratories + Borders + Democracy + Marx + Keynes + Rights
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°Entrepreneurialism and experiment

September 5, 2009

Eric Beck, “Respecting the Middle: The Wire’s Omar Little as Neoliberal Subjectivity“:

What’s often elided in accounts of neoliberalism is the way that its axiomatic and stratic transformations are responses to, even accommodations of, workers’ and dissidents’ demands. There’s no need to be sad that capital has been able to incorporate and profit from them, just as there’s no need to despair when protest is met with silence or disregard. That’s what capitalism always does, and using its response as a measure not only ensures defeat from the outset but has nothing to do with political desire. None of this is to deny that neoliberalism presents new challenges. As this essay has tried to show, the colonization of nonwork life by the axioms of labor has had a suffocating effect, and neoliberalism’s axioms regarding freedom have made organizing a more delicate and dangerous proposition. Despite this, neoliberalism still has not solved capitalism’s fundamental problem: It requires for its substratum a subjectivity that is independent of it.

Political movements that take comfort in this brute fact, however, are not worthy of the name. Omar Little prefers his space in the middle, but not because it allows him a respite from the dangers of life. Guarantees in The Wire exist only for the molar strata. Instead, the middle permits the most room to create and experiment. And that, in the contemporary conjecture, is a good start.

Filed under: Precarious precarity + Laboratories + Screen
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°Household frontier

August 25, 2009

An excerpt, still in draft, of “The Household Frontier,” written with Melinda Cooper:

Filed under: Biowar + Laboratories + Borders + Escape + Rights
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°Economies of race, queer households and the crisis

August 14, 2009

Here’s the spiel for a workshop, as part of “Seeing Through the Emperor’s New Clothes,” a conference on the GFC in September:

Filed under: Biowar + Laboratories + Borders + Memes + Marx + Keynes + Sydney
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°Protected: File for later

June 2, 2009

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Filed under: Laboratories
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°Usura/Subprima

May 7, 2009

The introductory paragraphs of “In Praise of Usura,” written with Melinda Cooper:

Filed under: Biowar + Precarious precarity + Laboratories + Borders + Memes
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