The Politics of Austerity: Emergency Economics and Debtocracy
austerity |ôˈsteritē| noun – sternness or severity of manner or attitude It was possible, therefore, to commit a sin without knowing that you committed it, without wanting to commit it, and without...
View ArticleOn the Abstraction of Contemporary Crisis
On the Abstraction of Contemporary Crisis Or, Why Today Feels Different From the 1930s One of the oddities of the ongoing economic crisis is its apparent separation from everyday life.[1] Consumers...
View ArticleThe Irruption of the Event
As the inevitable Greek exit from the eurozone seemingly approaches, it’s worth comparing current statements about Greece to how the financial press and regulators considered Lehman Brothers the week...
View ArticleEthical Encounters – Border Ethics: Autoimmunity as Ethics of Hospitality
This guest post, by Myriam Fotou, is the first in a series of posts reflecting on contemporary global ethics that was originally organised as the Ethical Encounters in a Changing World panel for the...
View ArticleThe EU Referendum: The EU Mirage
This is the first post in a Disorder forum on the EU referendum. Click here for the forum introduction with the links to the other posts. Our first guest author is Christopher J. Bickerton. Chris is...
View ArticleThe EU Referendum: Brexit, the Politics of Scale and State Transformation
This is a post in our EU referendum forum. Click here for the introduction with links to all the contributions. The choice facing Britain in the EU referendum is best understood, I suggest, using two...
View ArticleRevisiting Genocide: From Hegemonic Narratives to Plasticity
The last guest contribution to our symposium is penned by Myriam Fotou, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on the ethics of hospitality, inquiring...
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