Contract and contagion : from biopolitics to oikonomia

Contract and Contagion presents a theoretical approach for understanding the shifts of post-Fordism and neoliberalism by way of a critical reading of contracts, and through an exploration of the shifting politics of the household. In this book Angela Mitropoulos takes up current and historical theories to elaborate a queer, anti-racist, feminist Marxism, which is to say: a Marxism preoccupied not with the seizure of opportunity to take power or form government, but a Marxism which partakes of the uncertain movements that break the bonds of fate. The LiquidaTion of foundaTions 7 ConTingenCy, neCessiTy, PerformaTiviTy 19 oikonomia 49 Reading Xenophon in (post-)Fordist Times – Arendt, Foucault; Oikopolitics, Biopolitics, or Oikonomia? – Intersection, Domos – Agamben, Foucault, and Dumézil – Locke’s Holy Trinity insuranCe, inoCuLaTion 77 LegaL, Tender 87 Genealogy – The Limits of Right – Reproducing Race – Frontier expansion – Queer Value? – Reproducing Labour-power – Reproducing Value – Genealogy Otherwise infrasTruCTure, infra-PoLiTiCs .115 unProduCTive CirCuLaTion, exCessive ConsumPTion .119 fouCauLT, neoLiberaLism and (The) inTervenTion .135 Welfare/Warfare – The Disappearance and Reappearance of Foucault’s Genealogy – Colonial Properties – Household Property and Proper Homes – Foucault, Becker and the New Household Economics – The Re/production of Human Capital ProLiferaTing LimiTs .153 Points of Exchange – The Boundaries of Oikonomia – Polanyi and Marx – The Gift of Surplus Labour – Pattern of Re/production – Emerging Markets, Frontiers affeCTive Labour .173 fLora and forTuna .177 neoConTraCTuaLism, faiTh-based CaPiTaLism .189 Contagion and Plague – Moral Hazard and the New Covenant – Socially-Necessary Labour, Human Capital and Service Work muTuum, muTare .205 Usury and the Return of the Dark Ages – The Fordist Domestication of Liquidity – Marx’s Intermundia – Student Debt, Education Bubbles and Speculation – Financial Contagion, Loose Ties and Complex Systems – From Infinite Debt to Endless Credit – Clinamen referenCes .233 index .259 minor ComPosiTions .263 .263 Contract and Contagion presents a theoretical approach for understanding the complex shifts of post-Fordism and neoliberalism by way of a critical reading of contracts, and through an exploration of the shifting politics of the household. It focuses on the salient question of capitalist futurity in order to highlight the simultaneously intimate, economic and political limits to venturing beyond its horizon. 'Contract & Contagion' presents a theoretical approach for understanding the complex shifts of post-Foridm & neoliberalism by way of a critical reading of contracts, & through an exploration of the shifting politics of the household. It focuses on the salient question of capitalist futurity in order to highlight the simultaneously intimate, economic and political limits to venturing beyond its horizon ISBN 978-1-57027-256-1 contract,philosophy,Marxism,queer theory,biopolitics