Category: Authority
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Spain: The Self Examined Empire
In which we explore the relationship between centres and peripheries in Spain through Empire and beyond.
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You Can Buck the Market
In which we discuss how “the market” became something you can’t argue with. P.S. You actually can.
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The Machinery of Legitimation II
How States lose legitimacy.
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PIG IRON 7: Learning to Think
Essays in Political Economy: In Which we Set Out the Framework for Learning to Think
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The Machinery Considering Itself
A non-specialist’s attempt to climb the ladder from chemistry to behaviour — and understand what it means for the rest of our political and cultural economy project
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What’s the Big Idea
A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.
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PIG IRON 3: Alienation, or Why He Feels Like a Tourist at Home
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 3: In which we explore the defining contradiction: Alienation
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PIG IRON 1: How Money Works
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 1: In which we attempt to explain what money is.
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PIG IRON 0: What This Is
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 0: In which we explain what this is for.
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 