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Ian Hacking Interviewed by Andrew Lakoff
Andrew Lakoff, in Volume 24, Number 1
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Subjects of Risk: Technologies of Gender in the Making of Millennial Modernity
The 2011 Microfinance USA conference was held in New York City. A gathering of nearly a thousand microfinance practitioners, the conference aimed to build “a microfinance movement in the United States.” But the meeting was also an expression of a gro…The Other Road to Serfdom: Recovery by the Market and the Affect Economy in New Orleans
Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods
One of the key features marking “failed” states in contemporary political discourse is their incapacity to serve the needs of their respective populations, to govern as well as rule. Amid the ruins of bureaucratic infrastructure (which in specific…Libyan Money, Academic Missions, and Public Social Science
In spring 2011, several famous social scientists found themselves caught up in unwelcome publicity. As fighting spread in Libya, attention focused on the trips Benjamin Barber, Anthony Giddens, Joseph Nye, Robert Putnam, and several others had made to…