By Lenora Hanson Issue 6 October 16, 2023 Download PDF “[…] the origin of every contract also points toward violence.” Walter Benjamin, “Critique of Violence”[1] In an earlier draft of this response to Julia Schleck’s Dirty Knowledge, I ended up ending on watermelon. Undoubtedly, this had something to do with the […]
By Jin Chang Issue 5 May 21, 2023 Download PDF It is difficult to decide where to best begin in responding to Gregg Lambert’s elegantly sly riffs on Deleuze’s refrain, “The people are missing,” as there is much that I agree with in his readings and diagnoses. Let me begin, then, by singling out this […]
By Frank Pasquale Issue 2 February 5, 2019 Download PDF Calling financial services “products” was one of the greatest marketing triumphs of the banking industry. The convenient reification made complex sets of rights, duties, and promises (like annuities, long-term care insurance, and mortgages) sound as solid and familiar as a car or washing machine. The […]
By Shane Herron Issue 2 December 13, 2018 Download PDF “Socialists have certainly good reason to be grateful to Professor Mises, the great advocatus diaboli of their cause. For it was his powerful challenge that forced the socialists to recognise the importance of an adequate system of economic accounting to guide the allocation of resources in a socialist […]
By Adam Kotsko Issue 2 September 27, 2018 Download PDF I. My first reaction to Scott Ferguson’s Declarations of Dependence was that it was the strangest book I had ever read. One can group together any three significant topics of this book—for instance, monetary theory, the philosophical implications of perspective painting, and Looney Tunes; or […]
By Aaron Schuster Issue 1 September 11, 2017 Download PDF Against Free Choice It is almost impossible today not to be a consumer of the apocalypse, whether in films, novels, magazines, or TV series, or simply on the daily news. Against the multiple visions of the end on offer, one […]