It comes as something ofa surprise to reflect that the New York Review ofBooks is now over twenty years old. Even people of my generation (that is, old enough to remember the revolutionary 196os but not young enough to have taken a very exciting part in them) think of the paper as eternally youthful. In fact, it has gone through years of relatively quiet life, yet, as always in a competitive journalistic market, it is the controversies that attract the interest of the reader and to which the history (especially an admittedly impressionistic survey that tries to include something of the intellectual context in which a journal has operated) must give some attention. Not all the attacks which the New York Review has attracted, both early in its career and more recently, are worth more than a brief summary. What do we now make, for example, of Richard Kostelanetz's forthright accusation that 'The New York Review was from its origins destined to publicize Random House's (and especially [Jason] Epstein's) books and writers'?1 Well, simply that, even if the statistics bear out the charge (and Kostelanetz provides some suggestive evidence to support it, at least with respect to some early issues), there is nothing surprising in a market economy about a publisher trying to push his books through the pages of a journal edited by his friends. True, the New York Review has not had room to review more than around fifteen books in each issue and there could be a bias in the selection of

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The New York Review of Books

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Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty by Aihwa Ong

The Right and the Good

How forests think

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Ontology is just another word for culture: Motion tabled at the 2008 meeting of the group for debates in anthropological theory, University of Manchester

This constitutes the edited proceedings of the 2015 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory held at Manchester.

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Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political

This comprises the edited proceedings of the 2013 debate on the motion ‘There is no such thing as the good’ held at the University of Manchester. Edited by Soumhya Venkatesan.

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There is no such thing as the good: the 2013 meeting of the group for debates in anthropological theory

Based on ethnography among handloom mat-weavers in South India, this article asks how persons and things become agents, and what this process involves. Foucault's concept of the heterotopia is utilized to think through the puzzle seen in ‘traditional Indian craft’, but not restricted to it: why and how are certain marginalized persons and things brought by powerful others to the centre of a framed social space? How does this repositioning simultaneously enhance and constrain the capacity of these persons and things to act effectively? The article also proposes a way of thinking about acting things while avoiding the problem of intentionality.

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Sur la base d'un travail d'ethnographie parmi les tisserands de tapis handloom d'Inde du Sud, l'auteur s'interroge sur la facon dont les personnes et les objets deviennent des agents et sur ce qu'implique ce processus. Le concept d'heterotopie de Foucault est mis a contribution pour resoudre l'enigme de «l'artisanat indien traditionnel», sans toutefois s'y limiter : pourquoi et comment certaines personnes et certains objets marginalises sont-ils amenes par d'autres, plus puissants, au centre d'un espace social encadre? Comment ce repositionnement accroit-il et restreint-il a la fois la capacite d'agir efficacement de ces personnes et de ces objets? L'article propose egalement une approche de la reflexion sur les objets agissants, tout en evitant l'ecueil de l'intentionnalite.

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Rethinking agency: persons and things in the heterotopia of ?traditional Indian craft?

The following discussion developed from a debate held on the motion: ?The concept of neoliberalism has become an obstacle to the anthropological understanding of the twenty-first century?, held at the 2012 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT) at the University of Manchester. The debate was organized and edited for publication by Soumhya Venkatesan. A full transcription of the debate is hosted on the JRAI website: http://www.jrai.net; a full podcast of the debate can be heard at the Talking Anthropology website: http://www.talkinganthropology.com/2013/01/18/ta45-gdat1-neoliberalism/#t=2:49:40.219.

Soumhya Venkatesan

Papers

Ontology is just another word for culture: Motion tabled at the 2008 meeting of the group for debates in anthropological theory, University of Manchester

Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political

There is no such thing as the good: the 2013 meeting of the group for debates in anthropological theory

Rethinking agency: persons and things in the heterotopia of ?traditional Indian craft?

‘The concept of neoliberalism has become an obstacle to the anthropological understanding of the twenty-first century’†