Angela Mitropoulos Contract and Contagion

In capitalist history, but also in philosophy, finance, migration policy and theories of globalization, contagion linked to contagion is repeated at the same time real, symbolic and imaginary. Where political economy understands value in terms of labor, the contract and contagion holds that the law of value is the law of the household (oikonomia). Genealogy is an exemplary form of marking the lines and boundaries of claim, property, rights, that is, spatialization and distance from social interaction. Genealogy is clearly visible in border areas or moments of uncertainty for capitalism (cf. S. Best Fugitives Properties p.109). Genealogy is an integral part of the politics of recognition by transforming multiple, irreducible and complex relationships into contractual relationships (”recognizing who and what we owe to our existence” [93]) Contract and Contagion presents a theoretical approach to understanding the complex changes of post-Fordism and neoliberalism through a critical interpretation of treaties and through an exploration of changing household politics. It focuses on the salient question of the capitalist future in order to show the intimate, economic and political boundaries in order to venture beyond their horizons. Nevertheless, it was particularly ineffective in dealing with the spread of a virus such as SARS-CoV19 – arguably the first overwhelming biomolecular avoidance maneuver of the 21st century. The result is indeterminate, but the accumulation of stakes could not be both more intense and more global. When it comes to contracts, feral cats are also a kind of avoidance maneuver.

Mitropoulos presents the heart of Oikonomia as the combination of equality and hierarchy based on the principles of dealing with oneself and others: ”the expression of property in itself – under conditions of uncertainty.” [11] Uncertainty occurs not only as an unpredictable event of the clitoris, but also by forms of contingency and contagion such as the classic plague scourge. Chapters 1 and 2 describe oikonomics to include devices such as contracts to stabilize this dangerous dynamic by turning contingency into necessary tasks and attributing risks by determining the benefits and costs arising from certain measures and in specific contexts. Chapter 3 is therefore devoted to the theme of insurance and syndication or the distribution of social risks. Angelo Mitropoulos` work goes beyond the impasses of autonomist Marxism and queer theory to forge a critical analysis of the interdependencies between the economy, the nation-state, and the family. Mitropoulos situates the dynamics of capital in the ”double movement” of contract and contagion and radicalizes marxist criticism of the treaty, while rejecting the fundamental nostalgia of the left. Mitropoulos most insistently proposes the prism of fiscal policy (or oikonomia) to question the changing link between the sexual and the economic through different regimes of accumulation. Baroque and concise, this book will destabilize the most familiar political categories. Melinda Cooper, author of Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era Angela Mitropoulos is a political theorist whose corpus includes records of radical movements and sustained philosophical investigations. His writing has been published in numerous journals, including Social Text, South Atlantic Quarterly, Mute, Cultural Studies Review, Borderlands, and ephemera; and it has been widely disseminated, disseminated and taught in academic and activist contexts. . Angela Mitropolous begins her central work, Contract and Contagion, with a preface that suggests a certain guilt towards Michel Serre`s practice of reading ancient texts not directly as philosophical works, but as basic stories and mythologies with which to reflect. She identifies Lucrezia clinamen, the stochastic escape of atoms, as a commitment to the powerful dynamics (dyname) of the world, against teleologies, providence and determinisms.

This random quality leads to uncertainty, but also to opportunities, and therefore Machiavelli, who also presents the reign of the prince on the model of the patriarch of a house, an Oikomene, classically described by Xenophon in a text on housekeeping: ”The well-being of man depends on his defeat Fortuna … This Renaissance agency is Virtù, a masculine definition of the capacity for autonomy, the political capacity to act, and the nature of production, reproduction, and politics. Virtù realizes power, potential and power. From that moment on, Mitropoulos said, Oikonomia was no longer a matter of housekeeping. The relationship between the public and the private, polite and oikos is realigned into an oicopolitics. Ð Ð1/2аÑÐμÐ1/4 кÑÑпÐ1/2ÐμйÑÐμÐ1/4 в Ð1/4Ð ̧ÑÐμ Ð1/4агаа з ̧Ð1/2Ðμ пÑÐμÐ ́ÑÑавлÐμÐ1/2ÑлÐμкÑÑÐ3/4Ð1/2Ð1/2ÑÐμ кÐ1/2Ð ̧гР̧, ðºÐ3/4ÑÐ3/4ÑÐμ Ð1/4Ð3/4жÐ1/2Ð3/4 ÑÐ ̧ÑаÑÑ Ð Ð Ð±Ñа Ñз ÐμÑÐμ, Ð1/2а паÐ1/2ÑÐμÑÐ1/2Ð3/4Ð1/4 ÐÐ, ÑÐμлÐμÑÐ3/4Ð1/2Ðμ ̧лР̧ ÑпÐμÑÐ ̧алÑÐ1/2Ð3/4Ð1/4 ÑÑÑÐ3/4йÑвÐμ. See also: ”Against Quarantine”, New Survey, February 13, 2020.Border, Interior, Migration, Pandemic, Political Economy, Spatialization, Spatialization/Spatialization, State For Mitropoulos, the nation-state is a historically-geographically specific fusion of households and households with the state. In Machiavelli, this includes a gendered conception of virtù (as in vir man, virile) and opportunity (fortuna, a passive but favorable situation) presented by Arendt in Human Condition Ch. 3 ”Virtu is man`s conjured response to the world, or rather to the constellation of Fortuna, in which the world opens, presents itself and offers itself to him, his Virtu.” Virtù expresses himself idiomatically as ”go ahead” and seems to be personified by the contemporary fetishism of the ”entrepreneur”. This text is intended to be an unfinished document in progress and an account of our thoughts as we have worked on this text. Updates and extended versions can be submitted via rshields@ualberta.ca Fill in your data below or click on an icon to register: Pingback: Infrastructure, Infrastructure Policy ”s0metim3s Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia www.minorcompositions.info |minorcompositions@gmail.com âIn this amazing overhaul of the philosophical fibers of the economy, Angela Mitropoulos proposes a complete realignment of risk distribution and Recycling emergency. The result is a feverish policy of debt and credit to revitalize movements in and for the future. Randy Martin, author of Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management However, this does not mean that a device triumphs or, for that matter, is effective in what it claims to do.

It persists as a device, in a set of guidelines, approaches, and assumptions based on categorical understandings of life, biological processes, and living beings, shaping the world by operationalizing it, no matter how imperfect its representation of life may be. That is, systematic ”errors” are functional for a particular system and, of course, depend very much on the definitions of ”efficiency”. The grotesques who openly applaud the prospect of ”slaughter” have a very distinct view of the value of their lives and others – mysteriously, they never offer themselves as a tribute to their Malthusian god. ÐÐμÑ ÑлÐμкÑÑÐ3/4Ð1/2Ð1/2Ð3/4й вÐμÑÑÐ ̧Ð ̧ You communicate with your WordPress.com account. ( Logout / Modification ) When every house becomes a quarantine zone and every epidemiological map is confused with an accurate representation of molecular spread, the convergence of neoliberalism and fascism around an oicononomic understanding of health and disease is almost complete. Borders are important spatial elements for Mitropoulos. These are bifurcations in this topological space, but are not represented as an infrastructure for dividing, separating, or cutting the topology. Limitation multiplies on many levels as a phenomenon, intimate to global. At the city level, the ghetto is characterized by ”stigmatization, coercion, spatial confinement, and institutional envelopment,” which divide the space in such a way that ”material profits from a group considered contaminated and defiled are maximized.” [Waquant ”What is a ghetto” quoted p.194]. Rémy Bocquillon, Suraiya Farzana, Jeongwon Gim, Juan Guevara Salamanca, Pradeep Dissanayake Sangapala Arachchige Don, Jim Morrow, Rob Shields, February 2021. Space and Culture Research Group, University of Alberta, February 2021 – Melinda Cooper, author of Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era PDF available free online (www.minorcompositions.info/?p=482).

Order directly from Minor Compositions at the special price of £10 * Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia * Angela Mitropoulos Her work deals with spatial orders and orders, i.e. social spatialization.[65] He questions the vision of the private household as distinct from the public order of the nation-state and sees it not as a natural division, but as the result of the oppression of informal workers and workers (women, slaves and others who ensure the reproduction of labor). . This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Find out how your comment data is processed. .