A batch of the best highlights from what Jophin's read, .
Although making markets and installing market-mimicking devices into the coordination of public services are certainly significant, the increase of market discourse has been at least as significant in terms of constructing people and organisations as economic agents, and as a way of circulating market imagery in political and popular discourse. In the process, we have seen that the binary distinction between state and market obscures the multiple ways in which markets, market-like mechanisms and market imagery have been deployed in reform programmes.
Publics, Politics and Power
Janet Newman and John Clarke
Politics involves the creation of ideology; the setting of societal priorities, policies, laws and regulations; and the conferring of power, whether with or without majority participation and ratification.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
Oh, and night, the night, when wind hurls the universe at our faces. For whom is night not there?