Aihwa OngThinkers

Baroque ecology is the spatial formation that repositions the city-state as a hub in an ecosystem created from the mobilization of diverse global elements knowledge, practices, and actors interacting at a high level of performance.

Biopolitics is the state organization of the population to secure its control, welfare and productivity.

Biosecurity is an emerging set of thinking and practices through which the state protects and leverages bioresources by placing constraints on the free market forces.

Compromise is for diplomats. The prophets message is ultimatum rather than compromise.

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A Lateral space is a space of production that combines different kinds of labor regimes which do not fall neatly in line with the idea of a linear transition from a disciplinary to regulatory modes of control.

Midrange theory is a level of inquiry beyond the conceptual world of subjects to the articulation and disarticulation of sites.

Neoliberalism is a profoundly active technology of governance that rationalizes governing order to optimize. It involves the moral claim that the market is better than state at redistributing resources, and an ethical claim that assumes the individual to be, at base, competitive, possessive, and self-serving.