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Nov
20

BR1M & the Politics of Welfare in the Global South

11 min read
Jun
03

Vote-Buying: Good Democracy vs. Bad Democracy

20 min read
Jan
16

Provisional Notes on Ellen Wood's "The Pristine Culture of Capitalism"

18 min read
May
15

Dead Souls: The Ghostly Subjects of Contemporary Capitalism

19 min read
Apr
16

Techno-solutionism: Between the Gig-Economy and the Gift-Economy

10 min read