Law, Metrics and the Scholarly Economy

Law, Metrics and the Scholarly Economy

As markets began to usurp other forms of social regulation throughout the 20thcentury, metrics became increasingly central to the coordination of new spheres of market-mediated relations. More recently, digital metrics have been operationalized to facilitate the...
States that Build Citizen Power and Joy

States that Build Citizen Power and Joy

In her recent article for CLT, Davina Cooper calls for the urgent reimagination of the state. She calls upon critical theorists to move beyond critique of the current state form, and ask the deeper questions: what is the state for? What does it mean to be a state?...
On the Mark of Woman

On the Mark of Woman

It is true that men do not understand the refusal so well. It is true that women understand it all too well. Such that they make it their own. When the death of Eurydices Dixon in Melbourne re-evoked the chant “men fear women laughing at them, women fear men killing...
The Urgent Task of Reimagining the State

The Urgent Task of Reimagining the State

Covid 19 has given new urgency to the radical task of rethinking the state.  Illness, job losses, hospitalisation, and economic precarity demonstrate the need for scales and forms of governance that can organise and resource social welfare and public health...