Four building blocks | Negative Catallactics
So – this post is again really just repeating stuff I’ve already said – but it’s nevertheless also kicking off the project I described in my last post. Start with sanctions. As I …| Negative Catallactics
Ok, continuing to only semi-coherently ‘post through it’, I want to write briefly about two different ways in which we aim to track norms – that is, try to figure out what norms are. These are: and This is, broadly, tracking norms as an ethical task, and tracking norms as a descriptive social-scientific task. (Obviously […]| Negative Catallactics
I feel like I’m sort of running on fumes with these latest posts, but I still want to keep posting, for whatever reason, so. To review: Michael Smith distinguishes between two dimensions of metaethics – the objectivity of norms, and the practicality of norms. My orientation to the first of these two problems (the objectivity […]| Negative Catallactics
Alright. In this short post I want to draw a very simple distinction. I want to distinguish two different ways the broad project I’m engaged in here (let’s call it “psychodynamic social perspectivalism about normativity”) can be pursued – a formal and an informal approach. The formal approach would aspire to construct out of these […]| Negative Catallactics
In the last few posts I’ve given a broad brush articulation of the basic philosophical / metatheoretical framework I want to adopt, explore, endorse. In this post I just want to add one more piece to that framework. In Brandom’s framework, the two core normative statuses are “commitment” and “entitlement”. I want to swap out […]| Negative Catallactics
Ok. I take it that the basic Brandomian inferentialist account has something like the following structure. [I am sure I am going to get a lot wrong here; I’m after the broad brush picture, which doesn’t excuse sloppiness, but maybe excuses sloppiness a bit.] The substance – the content – of a statement is to […]| Negative Catallactics
So – this post is again really just repeating stuff I’ve already said – but it’s nevertheless also kicking off the project I described in my last post. Start with sanctions. As I …| Negative Catallactics
Ok. One of my countless ‘trying to get things straighter in my head, as I read’ posts. I’m trying to get to grips with metaethics. It’s early days yet! As I said a few posts ago, I find Mic…| Negative Catallactics
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’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
