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[...] austerity-wracked municipalities increasingly turn to predatory fines and fees to make up for chronic budget shortfalls, which leads to often deadly altercations with police and prison systems for those who cannot pay. All of these examples, for Wang, are mechanisms by which the overarching c…

The coin here might be read as a material allegory, or in some sense a synecdoche (a small part which represents the whole) of capital itself.

Michel Foucault, for one, identified the ship as the heterotopia par excellence: the space that is both within and outside the social order

The coin here might be read as a material allegory, or in some sense a synecdoche (a small part which represents the whole) of capital itself.

[...] All three key dimensions of the so-called FIRE sector (finance, insurance, and real estate) were essentially born in the crucible of European imperialism and (settler-)colonialism: Both stock markets and the joint-stock, limited liability corporation had their origins in AMsterdam and London …