That injustice foments violence is easy to accept; but this is where the difficulties begin.

France contributed the third pillar of the social state: the theory of public services. One of its main architects was the jurist Léon Duguit. Strongly influenced by Durk

leads some people to see globalization as the expression of an immanent law not susceptible to any political or legal control

having reduced the perimeter of social justice to quantitative measures, compensating in time or money for a reification of labour that is judged necessary according to the principles of the social state

Wage-earners, businesses and states are facing the same process of reification which, being humanly untenable, will necessarily give rise to new juridical responses

Her writing style is at once free-ranging and lapidary

Her modus operandi often involves taking a deadpan, seemingly literal-minded stance on a given concept or question in order to shed light on its contradictions, before then making an unexpected dialectical reversal.

in the panoptic present of Google Earth and the like

This vertiginous shift coincides with a condition of disorientation, of groundlessness.

these concerns produce, as noted above, an uneasy aporia: on the one hand the liberatory promise of a revolution spanning the worlds of political subjects and objects; on the other, a bleak refraction of Benjamin’s thesis on the philosophy of history