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some new papers: Northern Territory Intervention, Latour’s “Politics of Nature” and the Index

There are some new papers on the circulations page. The most recent is one about numbers and facts in the Northern Territory Intervention. Much of it is about Income quarantining or income management and how this effect a multiplicity in money value which is an unusual case in Western markets. I’m still working on this [...]

two weeks, four concepts and the rest

The last four post I think are concepts or perhaps tools. They have come over the last two weeks. They are loose, coherent enough with each other but not too rigid. It is these four little texts, these four concepts, that I will take with me back into my field notes. Below are some reflections [...]

Deleuze on concepts

Beginning to mobilize Deleuzian concepts I was recommended, by my supervisor, the chapter “On Philosophy” by Gilles Deleuze in Negotiations (1995) – a very accessible book of interviews in English. At first, two things were clarified. One, what was being called ‘problems of thought’ I had only thought through briefly, and had not distinguished it [...]

What are concepts in considering maths as a cultural practice?

I’m going to start working in the question ‘what is a concept?’ It is one thread weaving through the debate about method and metaphysics that is going on in a number of places at the moment. But I want to begin with the project called Maths as a Cultural Practice. It is a project between [...]