In an expansive response to Perry Anderson’s critique of international law in NLR 143, Martti Koskenniemi counterposes to headline rulings on crimes against humanity the opaque, pervasive network of techniques that constitutes the legal infrastructure of global capitalism, shaping our unequal world-social relations and how we imagine them.| New Left Review: current issue
Following his analytic survey of socialist economic theory and practice in the last number of NLR, Aaron Benanav sets out a design for institutions that could structure an economic democracy beyond capital accumulation and waged labour. A novel dual-currency system, elected investment boards, worker self-management and trans-sectoral coordination, responsive to the broadest social goals.| New Left Review: current issue
Ok. I want to set up shop in the ‘ideal observer theory’ literature. ‘Ideal observer theory’ is the idea that we should judge what’s morally good by considering what an ‘ideal observer’ would judge to be morally good. I think there are narrower and broader ways of understanding this idea. The narrow way insists on […]| Negative Catallactics
Ok. I’m not sure exactly how crackpot this is, but I’m going to propose a concept/framework: ‘regimes of incompatibility’. The post will come in two parts. I’ll start by outlining a cra…| Negative Catallactics
Ok. As I’ve said in previous posts, the official position of the blog is now that we can derive everything we might want from Brandomian inferentialism within a Humean/Smithian apparatus that has the following core commitments: 1) a sentimentalist theory of normative conferralism (norms are made real by adopting normative attitudes of approbation and disapprobation […]| Negative Catallactics
Intellectual reconstruction of the work of Michael Burawoy, from globe-spanning analysis of production regimes—post-colonial, advanced capitalist, state socialist—to theoretical dialogues with Polanyi, Bourdieu and Du Bois.| New Left Review