Contract and Contagion_ From Biopolitics to Oikonomia

Grinic, Stefano Harney, John Hutnyk, Anthony Iles, Anja Kanngieser,

. 8 . ANGELA MITROPOULOS

THE LIQUIDATION OF FOUNDATIONS . 9 .


emerged from my reading of Jean-Luc Nancy undertaken for Cutting


John Langshaw Austin, the performative is, or is a part of, the doing

Jean-Franois Lyotards arguments on performativity as the socio-

Judith Butler, not least because one of the exemplary performative

1 J.L. Austin,2 Jean-Franois Lyotard,

4 Much of Judith Butlers work (from

CONTINGENCY, NECESSITY, PERFORMATIVITY . 21 .


contract theorists such as Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau,


Jean-Jacques Rousseau,


Like Jason Read, I place an emphasis on the axiomatic as

Risk, Uncertainty and Prot

Jason Read,


into necessity as a specically capitalist problem


differentia specica


As Morton J. Horowitz has argued, the nineteenth

volenti non t injuria


contract law ushered in by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

Morton J. Horwitz,

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,


contract. Joking that contractualism presented the labour market as


On this last point, see J. G. A. Pockock,


legal, linguistic, technological, artful and economic senses. Unlike Jon

Jon McKenzie,


John Milbank, argues that Pascals Wager is not about deciding to believe but


John Maynard Keynes discussion of probability (both of which were

John Maynard Keynes,Risk, Uncertainty and Prot


Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Justification of the Infinitesimal Calculus by


invaders had been abbreviated into one of Jews polluting the water, and the resurgence of attacks on Jews precipitated a large-scale migration

OIKONOMIA . 51 .


more, see Jacqueline Stevens,

OIKONOMIA . 53 .

OIKONOMIA . 55 .

OIKONOMIA . 57 .

S. Todd Lowry, The Economic and Jurisprudential Ideas of the Ancient

From Baseball to Afrmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect

OIKONOMIA . 59 .

politics. Similarly J. G. A. Pocock has referred to what he called the

OIKONOMIA . 61 .

Pitkin, Justice: On Relating Public and Private, 271.


On Foucaults support for the Iranian Revolution, see Janet Afary and Kevin

OIKONOMIA . 63 .

OIKONOMIA . 65 .

OIKONOMIA . 67 .


War, and Sacrice: Studies in Ideology and Practice

OIKONOMIA . 69 .


and John Maynard

OIKONOMIA . 71 .

OIKONOMIA . 73 .


repay their debt of sins before being welcomed into heaven. Jacques Le

accounting). Just as Aquinas had admitted the contingent in order to

Jacques Le Goff,

OIKONOMIA . 75 .


3 John Hobson (1907), cited in Pat OMalley, Imagining Insurance Risk,

INSURANCE, INOCULATION . 79 .


Jacques Derrida refers to the double movement of auto-


Subjects and Tissue Donors in The Global Bioeconomy

LEGAL, TENDER . 89 .

been significant critiques of legal progressivism. Janet E. Halley, in a

John DEmilio, writing on

4 Janet Halley, The Politics of the Closet: Toward Equal Protection for Gays,

5 John DEmilio, The Marriage Fight Is Setting Us Back.


Hardt, Jefferson and Democracy, 41.


differentia specica


its legacy in the Jeffersonian tradition. Not quite a dismissal of the criticisms of Jefferson, Hardt nevertheless sets aside their specificity


conditions of political legibility, it would seem. Undoubtedly, Jefferson

simply that, for Jefferson as for others, the distinction between the

remained intact. More significantly, for Jefferson racial mixing

the household (reproductive) architecture of a Jeffersonian domestic

Hardt, Jefferson and Democracy, 43. Brian Steele, Thomas Jeffersons Gender Frontier.


of inheritance, labour and right, the Jeffersonian domestic economy


re-ordering of the marital contract. As Chief Justice Warren wrote in

are identical. Following Georg Simmel and Jean-Joseph Goux,

Counterfeits and Forgeries in Joyces Eumaeus, 828.


Clough and Jean Halley refer to in more recent times as the affective

Patricia Ticineto Clough and Jean OMalley Halley,


The Reication of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism


Unlimited Intimacy: Reections on the Subculture of Barebacking


different ways by both F. J. Turner and Marx

Frederick Jackson Turner,


online sales platform of Amazon which, as James Bridle has argued,

5 James Bridle, From Books to Infrastructure.

INFRASTRUCTURE, INFRA-POLITICS . 117 .

, what Jean-Luc Nancy has


regal damask, nor the Jacquard loom that replaced, reproduced and

UNPRODUCTIVE CIRCULATION, EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION . 119 .


will that the question of performativity emerges as the eld for reconstituting

Rogan Kersh and James A. Morone have illustrated the ways in which


Rogan Kersh and James A. Morone, Obesity, Courts, and the New Politics


Citing Aristotle, John

John N Burry, Obesity and virtue. Is Staying Lean a Matter of Ethics?


See J. Eric Oliver,

Lingxin Hao and Julie J. H. Kim, Immigration and the American Obesity

Australian Prime Minister, John Howard,

FOUCAULT, NEOLIBERALISM AND (THE) INTERVENTION . 137 .


of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse. Its report in June 2007


John Howard, Chris Petersen and Jess Moore, NT Intervention a Land Grab. Katarina


regime of capitalist property rights with an air of immutability. Just as

John Locke,


Project

Project


the Founding of the Theory of Transnite Numbers

4 The field is large and growing. Some examples are: Eystein Glattre, Jan F.

Esteban, and M. J. Mestre de Juan, Chaos, Fractals, and Our Concept of

and Fractal Metaphors: On the Misleading Juxtaposition of Risk Factor

PROLIFERATING LIMITS . 155 .

5 See for instance, H. Li and J. F. Reynolds, On Definition and Quantification of Heterogeneity, Kimberly A. With, Sean J. Cadaret, and Cinda Davis,


intrinsic to capitalism; whereas of Jean Charles Lonard de Sismondi,


Joseph Stiglitz,

Joseph Stiglitz served as an economic advisor to President Clinton and was


the momentous technological innovation of Jacquards loom (and the

Caffentzis, Jacquards punch-card device commissioned, he notes, as

(elaborating upon the principle of Jacquards loom, and later echoed

by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801 (but based on previous work on automatons by Jacques de Vaucanson), the loom mechanised the weaving


form of labour that the Jacquard loom begins to transform the textile

that correlate to a row in the design, the Jacquard loom slings these

AFFECTIVE LABOUR . 175 .

1 Earl A. Thompson and Jonathan Treussard, The Tulipmania: Fact or


5 Joe Nocera, Swept Up by Insanity of Markets.

FLORA AND FORTUNA . 179 .

Bloem-hoertje


beauty of its bloom. He cited John Beckmanns


Federico Aguilera-Klink, Eduardo Perez-Moriana, and Juan Sanchez-Garcia,


Jennifer Wicke suggests that while we


and Heirs of the late Floortje Floraas

2 Piven and Cloward, Foreword, in Jamie Peck,

NEOCONTRACTUALISM, FAITH-BASED CAPITALISM . 191 .


daily lives that Janet Finn and Lyne Underwood have underscored in

Janet L. Finn and Lyne Underwood, The State, the Clock, and the Struggle:


of peoples intimate lives. Moreover, as Joseph N. DeFilippis has

Joseph N. DeFilippis, Common Ground: The Queerness of Welfare Policy.


fragment from Thomas Jeffersons letters, Clinton invoked the debt

debt and determine the risk. And the debt, as Jefferson went on to


variant of Joseph Schumpeters concept of innovation and creative


, 227-30. Joseph Schumpeter,

John Carswell, The South Sea Bubble.


Indonesian rupiah. Just as these began to stabilise, a second wave of

MUTUUM, MUTARE . 207 .

2 Stijn Claessens and Kristin J. Forbes,


website on the financial crisis, five published since January of 2009

, for instance, see the interview with Juan Gonzales, titled


figurations of, respectively, cosmopolitan and faithless Jew around

the International Jewish Banker for was not only his unproductive use


John Carswell shows that the issue was not merely one of the

only were there rumours that John Laws had dispatched emissaries

arrival of plague in France. At Marse on 31 July, Carswell wrote,


John Carswell,


Elaine Hatfield, John T. Cacioppo, and Richard L. Rapson,


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Allen, John, and Nick Henry. Ulrich Becks Risk Society at Work: Labour and

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INDEX . 261 .

Halley, Janet E., 89, 99, 102

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Locke, John, 22, 24, 29, 39, 69-77,


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INDEX . 263 .


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