... of contract accom- plishes for the parties, and what governing by contract means for the interests of so-called non- parties. The contractual turn of the past two decades has been documented extensively in many contexts (see, for example, Affolder 2012; Gaathi 270 The South Atlantic Quarterly April 2020...

...: “For the Soveraign, is the publique Soule, giving Life and Motion to the Common-­wealth; which expiring, the members are governed by it no more, than the Carcasse of a man, by his departed (though Immortal) Soule.”58 In Hobbesian and other contractual political doctrines, the com- forting illusion...

...Angela Mitropoulos This essay contends that the contractual is a technique for the reinstatement of a specifically capitalist determinism in the midst of uncertain circumstances and in the face of an indefinite future. Taking the indistinction between the time of life and that of work...

... our charac­ teristic befuddlement is nothing more nor less than faith in the ideology of the European Enlightenment, as perhaps most fully elaborated in the contractual theories of government associated with Locke and Rousseau. Under the sway of the logic of the social contract, we assume...

... of the government and banking system and shaking up the public stage by making social movements visible as determinant actors in the conflict. If neoliberalism depends on an innumerable quantity of institutions and regulations—such that Michel Foucault (2008) defines it as an active politics without...

... workers decreased to 32,000 (Czommer and Worthmann 2005). The government also defined contractual terms and conditions for 208  The South Atlantic Quarterly • Against the Day • January 2015 posting as well as the sectors for which collective agreements apply. Posted workers in sectors...

... had been granted to a private company and not a foreign government. The British insisted on a contractual language that treated the leased territories as alienable private property to be permanently transferred to APOC for the duration of the concession (sixty years). Eventu- ally...

... established and accepted, the author directs his attention to the subjects, recognition, nationality, and the rights of man, responsibility of states for injuries to individuals, the law of contractual obligations, legal regulation of the use of force, and rights and duties in the event of illegal use...

... ownership (especially algorithms) and physical ownership of the means of production (which are the prerogative of the platform’s users/producers/consumers). This new proprietary model allows us to revisit the question of the ownership of the means of production and the governance of the firm itself...

... of service, care, and nurture, they fall short of identifying how exploitation of gendered labor is also part of a system that governs through reduction and extension of life or what Michel Foucault elaborates as biopower, which depends on these degraded feminized labors, even as it uses them up. While...

..., is clearly the consequence of this absolute privilege for the horizontal moment in the construction of legal form. For Pashukanis, the moment in which formal equality is established is central, as is the contractual relation between equal free wills, as a form of exploitation. This is not, however...

... democratic than the form of our government. Blackstone s argument somewhat academic in its British context that each voter should own enough property to make his vote independent, is relied on heavily in the discussion of the theoretical basis of property qualifications, but the case would have been...

... freedom. The academic marketplace of ideas is a complex con- struct of conventional monetary profit, reputation, celebrity, terms of con- tract, and social practices. Kaczynski’s case provides a cautionary tale in that the government has invoked a contractual arrangement to control and even co-opt...

.... In the century before Locke, the Golden Age was treated not simply as a poetic fable but as a cru­ cial part ofthe historical record through which a fallen humankind must try to make sense of the political, economic, and ecological crises of its time. In his efforts to justify a contractual basis for government...

... life expectancy, greater expenses of operation, unwillingness to provide long-term contractual guarantees, and, with some companies, the possibility that the outstanding guarantees must be paid for indirectly by higher premiums received from newer policyholders. As a result of these conditions...

... great and has been of such long standing that its influence is automatically greater than that of any other group in the nation. An Epilogue describes the Five Year Plan, inaugurated by the Peron government in 1947, as a heroic attempt to develop the natural resources of Argentina, to decentralize its...

... date uppermost in his mind, or does he not rather vaguely think of insurance as a guarantee on the part of the government that somehow an existence wage will always be forthcoming? If we are to have unemployment insurance there is no doubt but that a scientific and practical system can be devised...

... Charta by King John, on June 15, 1215. Together with Explanatory Notes to the Charter . 81st Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Document No. 180 . Washington : United States Government Printing Office , 1950 . Pp. iii , 20 . 10c . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 B O O© K S...

..., this is invisible work and unspent money that would approximate half the GNP of many countries. Yet even though such calculations are already accepted officially by governments, even though the media report on unpaid housework in such terms, and even though describing house­ wife as a profession arouses...

... of the sick and wounded, came to be regarded of great value as codifying the practice of nations, thus securing definiteness, and as doing much to lessen the severities of war. Despite the wish expressed by the first Conference that the Governments, taking into consideration the proposals made...