The rapidity of recent social transformations and the suspension much knowledge that has settled in our daily lives call for a twofold action: designing new political objectives justice shedding light on analytical tools capable both laying bare inequalities power structures feed them, outlining paths transformative intervention. link between sociology utopia emerges here with particular clarit...

The article considers several working anarchies in the networked environment, and whether they offer a model for improving on the persistent imperfections of markets and states. I explore whether these efforts of peer mutualism in fact offer a sufficient range of capabilities to present a meaningful degree of freedom to those who rely on the capabilities it affords, and whether these practices ...

This is an edited transcript of a keynote paper given at IACR's 2021 Annual Conference. The outlines critical realist approach to critique and illustrates its application the contemporary economy. It argues that responsible, constructive depends on ethics, causal explanation, development utopian visions. Utopias are tools, concrete utopias not visions whole alternative ready-made societies, but...

During the sixteenth century, one of the axial moments in the reflection and production of utopias in what concerns the universal monarchy and the topic of the traslatio imperii was the Iberian Union. Nevertheless, the process of empire formation, in general terms, remains under-theorized. This paper presents a text by a chronicler, the Azorean priest Gaspar Frutuoso, who, by the end of the six...