Can The Market Speak?

Can The Market Speak?

by Campbell Jones
Can The Market Speak?

Can The Market Speak?

by Campbell Jones

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Overview

It is said the market has moods and desires. It is said that we must listen to it and must anticipate how it will respond to our actions. What is the significance of these peculiar forms of speech? This book investigates the conceptual underpinnings of the idea that the market has intentions, consciousness and speech, and identifies the social and political consequences of this attribution to the market of capacities generally thought to be uniquely human. At once a work of philosophy, a cultural and social archaeology and a diagnosis of one of the central ideologies of our times, this book cuts to the heart of the linguistic forms through which our collective futures are decided.
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781846945373
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 04/16/2013
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 81
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Campbell Jones is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland. He specialises in the analysis and critique of capitalist ideology. His latest book - Can the Market Speak? - scrutinises the peculiar idea that the market might be a kind of person who could speak, and asks what truths about life under the market the analysis of this apparent falsity might bring to light. He lives in New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

The spirit is a bone 1

The market speaks 8

What do you want? 14

What kind of person? 21

The voice and will of God 30

Divine mumbling 37

The invisible hand of Jupiter 45

The violence of metonymy 51

The great disappearing trick 59

Barbarians 64

Notes 69

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