Welcome to the online start up of Economics on the border

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Introduction (all yours Nikos)

Economics on the border is a student-run seminarserie meant to fill the gap between the economic philosophy and continental or political philosophy. Bringing philosophy into economy. Possible themes: Levinas and economy. Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Foucault’s ideas on liberalism. Liberalism and capitalism. Waste / ecology.

Proposed contributions by Participants 

Marco Sachy

Nikos Skiadopoulos 

Chiara Bonfiglioli 

Sanne van Driel 

Izaak Dekker:

In this seminar the critiques and theories of Richard Sennett (The culture of new capitalism, The craftsman, The uses of disorder) will be presented and evaluated. Furthermore I would like to use this presentation in order to discuss the broader themes Sennett brings up in his writings. For example the possibility of craftsmanship in a technocapitalist environment and the impacts of economical factors on culture and public life. Sennett has written much about the ways in which our public space is organised. Abstract ways of planning on enormous scale by the municipality a company or government fail in making living and vibrating neighbourhoods, can this be re-organised (or maybe dis-organised) and in what way?

Aetzel Griffioen   

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