Category: Bureaucracy
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The Ideal Is Not in the Head
The demonstration of what is at stake when thought loses its friction with reality and becomes a closed loop of self-confirming categories.
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Nine Programmes: What British Television Actually Changes
Sixty years of British television, drama and documentary alike. What was it? Who made it, and why? What happened the night it went out? Did anything real follow.? And does anyone still reach for it now?
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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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Argentina: Informal Empire
In which we examine the legacy of Spanish and British empire in Argentina.
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The Machinery of Legitimation II
How States lose legitimacy.
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Empire: The Company That Became a Country
The political economy of the British Empire. Finance capital, informal empire, administrative afterlife.
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Where the Money Goes
The centralisation of British government finance, the regional divide it has entrenched, and the myths that keep the debate about it stuck.
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PIG IRON 10: The Antithesis
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. In which we set out the objections to our views.
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PIG IRON 9: The Narrative Problem
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In which we set out how the Left should tell its story
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What’s the Big Idea
A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 