Angela Mitropoulos

Unboxing the Hidden Labor of Saving Lives and Saving Capitalism

To maintain the Western phantasm that ‘capitalism is an intelligent computer,’ the hidden labor of those whose hands silently uphold it is framed as heroic. This promotes sacrificing oneself for ‘the (operating) system.’ In this SILENT WORKS interview Magdalena Taube

Unboxing the Hidden Labor of Saving Lives and Saving Capitalism

The Time of the Contract: Insurance, Contingency and the Arrangement of Risk

Extract: This essay contends that the contractual is a technique for the reinstatement of a specifically capitalist determinism in the midst of uncertain circumstances and in the face of an indefinite future. Taking the indistinction between the time of life

The Time of the Contract: Insurance, Contingency and the Arrangement of Risk

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