All posts by Ali Rıza Taşkale

Political Economy Through Speculative Fiction: The Case of New York 2140

Ali Rıza Taşkale | Ibrahim Alamu | October 22, 2024

The experimental world of speculative fiction is like a history of political economy. It explores topics like dystopias, post-scarcity, automation, and AI. But it doesn’t stop there!

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Defamiliarising Capitalism through Speculative Fiction

Ali Rıza Taşkale | February 1, 2022

Our world today is not just characterised by the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate disaster, it is also increasingly dominated and driven by financialised capitalism, as manifest e.g., in trading in derivatives and the rise of the cryptocurrency known as “bitcoin.” In other words, contemporary [...]

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Three Theories of Underdevelopment

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Marx’s method of political economy

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Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch

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Beyond the Stereotype: How Dependency Theory Remains Relevant

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What is Constructivism For?

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10 talking points from Jason W. Moore’s ‘Capitalism in the Web of Life’

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Coronavirus, Crisis and the End of Neoliberalism

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Marxist Theories of Imperialism

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Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space