Conditional Sorites (source: ‘Sorites Paradox’, Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2011 (Winter), © Dominic Hyde, reproduced with permission. Available at http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/sorites-paradox/)

January 2014 Issue

Focus on political economy in the upcoming January 2014 issue, with a symposium on Contesting the Indian City, a classic treatise on the performative world-making of economic models, a controversial article on the Singapore model of state capitalism and a combative article on the ‘myth of command and control’ in the global city concept, claiming to reveal, via reference to a sorites paradox, a ‘fatal flaw’ in the ‘interlocking model of a “world city network”‘.

Let the debate begin…