Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Development of local systems in various European countries is characterized by the strong increase of regionalism along with a greater flexibility in the distribution of normative competencies at different levels. Development is not uniform. In the beginning at least, these systems are shaped in accordance with a national rationale. However, the development of European integration, and the principle of subsidiarity, tend to standardize development and thereby challenge if not the nation-state, then its traditional way of functioning.

The End of the Nation-State

The Economic Approach To Human Behavior

Buying time: The delayed crisis of democratic capitalism

Liquidated : an ethnography of Wall Street

The recently rising field of Critical Data Studies is still facing fundamental questions. Among these is the enigma of digital subjectivation. Who are the subjects of Big Data? A field where this q...

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Digital subjectivation and financial markets: Criticizing Social Studies of Finance with Lazzarato:

Friedrich Hayek’s defense of neoliberal free market capitalism hinges on the distinction between economies and catallaxies. The former are orders instituted via planning, whereas the latter are spo...

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Hayek’s vicarious secularization of providential theology:

According to Streeck and Vogl, the neoliberalization of the state has been the result of political-economic developments that render the state dependent on financial markets. However, they do not e...

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Performing Agency Theory and the Neoliberalization of the State

In his lectures on neoliberalism, Michel Foucault argues that neoliberalism produces subjects as ‘entrepreneurs of themselves’. He bases this claim on Gary Becker’s conception of the utility-maximi...

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The entrepreneur of the self beyond Foucault's neoliberal homo oeconomicus

In the beginning of the 1970s Michel Foucault dismissed the terminology of ‘exclusion’ for his projected analytics of modern power. This rejection has had major repercussions on the theory of neoli...

Tim Christiaens

Papers

Digital subjectivation and financial markets: Criticizing Social Studies of Finance with Lazzarato:

Hayek’s vicarious secularization of providential theology:

Performing Agency Theory and the Neoliberalization of the State

The entrepreneur of the self beyond Foucault's neoliberal homo oeconomicus

Financial Neoliberalism and Exclusion with and beyond Foucault