By Ryan Centner: [Abstract] Techniques of absence describe some of the potentially anti-deliberative practices that haunt recently widespread participation-based governance schemes. Techniques of absence remove certain kinds of people – on a spatialised basis – from crucial ‘democratic’ conversations. To illustrate these, I use ethnographic accounts from the implementation of a citywide participatory budgeting programme in three neighbourhoods across Buenos Aires, [...]
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O enigma do precariado e a nova temporalidade histórica do capital – Parte 1
May 15, 2012
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Por Giovanni Alves: Na medida em que incorpora o fetichismo da mercadoria, o capital como modo estranhado de controle do metabolismo social, permeia o mundo social com enigmas e mistificações que nos provocam. Por isso, a necessidade hoje, mais do que nunca, da consciência crítica capaz de apreender, com radicalidade dialética, processos sociais que surgem [...]
Read more “A World Class City of Your Own!”: Civic Governmentality in Chennai, India
May 11, 2012
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By Rowan Ellis [EXCERPTS] Specifically I focus on the practices of public consultation in Chennai, India and highlight the discursive function of the “world-class city” as it articulates and legitimates emerging paradigms in urban development. (…) The suggestion put forth by Birkinshaw and Harris (2009, 4) is that “the world-class city is an urban imaginary that further manufactures and normalizes [...]
Read more Neoliberalism Resurgent? Market Rule after the Great Recession
May 7, 2012
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By Jamie Pack, Nik Theodore and Neil Brenner: [Extract] “Advocates of progressive alternatives to neoliberalism must contend with the fact that, in a deeply interconnected world, no policy making place is an island anymore. “Local alternatives” remain important, but on their own they are not enough. Increasingly, fast-traveling global policy models have become the international currency of reform — be [...]
Read more The populist dance of Participatory Budgeting numbers in Porto Alegre
May 4, 2012
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By Sérgio Baierle: Every year is the same civic governmentality routine. The local government begins the Participatory Budgeting cycle with a fireworks show. The real content of participation doesn’t matter. The show is the government. The measure of success for Participatory Budgeting (PB), as stated in the multi-year plan, is solely the number of participants in the assemblies. In [...]
Read more Lubies métaphysiques de la lutte des classes
April 30, 2012
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A propos des présupposés tacites d’un étrange rétro-discours – By Norbert Trenkle: La lutte des classes serait-elle de retour sur la scène historique ? Pour qui prête l’oreille au discours de la gauche, ça ne fait apparemment aucun doute. « C’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait les meilleures soupes », déclare-t-on d’entrée dans le n°4 de la [...]
Read more A miséria participativa e a participação miserável
March 26, 2012
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Crítica do orçamento participativo – Pelo Grupo Fim da Linha: Em Porto Alegre, o assim chamado Orçamento Participativo (OP) ocupa o centro de debates, brigas e xingamentos, já virou ponto de parada turística de excursões de europeus, e foi o principal motivo da escolha de Porto Alegre como sede do Forum Social Mundial. O OP, [...]
Read more As contradições da frente neo desenvolvimentista
March 5, 2012
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Por Armando Boito Jr.: [excerpt] “A frente neodesenvolvimentista é a frente política integrada por classes e frações de classe muito heterogêneas que sustentou os governos Lula da Silva e que, agora, sustenta o governo Dilma. Essa frente representa prioritariamente os interesses de um setor importante da burguesia brasileira que é a grande burguesia interna. Essa [...]
Read more O capitalismo como estado de exceção permanente
February 23, 2012
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Por Cláudio R. Duarte: 1- Viver na sociedade moderna é estar sujeito a inúmeras ordens coercitivas. Ordens econômicas, políticas, sociais, morais, psicológicas. Ordens gerais que comandam o fazer, o viver, o agir, o pensar e até o sentir e o sonhar. A primeira dessas coerções é o trabalho, o trabalho em abstrato, para fins de [...]
Read more Cooperativización: algunas aproximaciones a las relaciones actuales entre Estado capitalista y sectores subalternos
February 15, 2012
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Por Mariana Giaretto: “El análisis de las relaciones entre Estado y clases subalternas a partir de experiencias concretas de tomas de tierras urbanas nos ha permitido identificar a la cooperativización como un proceso en el que se entrelazan complejamente tanto mecanismos estatales de dispersión del conflicto social como estrategias de subsistencia de los sectores populares.” [...]
Read more Associations, Deliberation, and Democracy: The Case of Ireland’s Social Partnership
February 14, 2012
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By Niamh Gaynor: [Excerpt] (…) [D]oes civic associational engagement at micro levels leave scope to engage laterally across associations and vertically with members and citizens thereby sustaining a vibrant, active public sphere? Is civic associational engagement within micro-policy fora “good” for democracy in a substantive sense? The answer to this has to be a qualified [...]
Read more L’ « économie réelle », c’est le capitalisme ! Au-delà de l’anticapitalisme tronqué de la gauche et du mouvement « Occupy Wall Street »
February 13, 2012
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Par K.B.: « Croissance de l’économie réelle ! », telle est depuis trente ans la position de l’altercapitalisme de gauche sur tous les continents. Pas besoin d’aller très loin, en France, les décombres du mouvement altermondialiste restent ainsi plongés dans une immense nostalgie pour le capitalisme à papa des Trente Glorieuses avec ses entreprises nationalisées, ses services publics, son [...]
Read more Care Work and the Commons
February 7, 2012
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By Massimo de Angelis: It is becoming increasingly clear that the current economic, social and environmental crises are degrading the conditions of everyday life for a vast range of people in many parts of the world, and are even posing apocalyptic threats to our social and ecological reproduction. It is also clear that the global [...]
Read more Capitalizing on Bare Life: Sovereignty, Exception, and Gender Politics
February 3, 2012
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By Jennifer Fluri: [EXCERPT] The reduction of civilian lives (in conflict zones) to zoe may also be economized through death, such as the military collateralization of civilian bodies. Remittances paid to the families of civilians killed by US coalition forces exemplify the monetary value placed on death, in contrast to civilian life. This form of [...]
Read more Inferno Precário
January 31, 2012
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Por Ruy Braga: “Ao invés de ficar declarando que a desocupação do Pinheirinho foi uma ‘ barbárie’, a única coisa realmente séria que a presidenta Dilma Rousseff poderia fazer seria usar o Ministério das Cidades para desapropriar a área e devolvê-la aos moradores do bairro.” – No exato momento em que as crises europeia e [...]
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- PENTECOSTAL BODY LOGICS: Cultivating a Modern Sensorium JOSH BRAHINSKY
