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One suspects that academic philosophers have made an obvious error: the error of supposing that only those disciplines which result in true propositions have any bearing upon truth.
Thinking With Concepts
John Wilson
Economics assumes a division between different spheres of human behavior that, among people like the Gunwinngu and the Nambikwara, simply does not exist. These divisions in turn are made possible by very specific institutional arrangements: the existence of lawyers, prisons, and police, to ensure that even people who don’t like each other very much, who have no interest in developing any kind of ongoing relationship, but are simply interested in getting their hands on as much of the others’ possessions as possible, will nonetheless refrain from the most obvious expedient (theft).
Rather than attempting to provide an answer to this question based on the analysis of the core structure of capitalism, I think we should follow scholars such as Barrett, Bhattacharya, Iris Young, and Cinzia Arruzza, and __view the familiar binary and hierarchical system of gender as a social phenomenon which does not originate in the logic of capital, yet nevertheless reproduces and is reproduced by it.__
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
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