Incarnating the Money-Sign: Notes on an Implicit Theopolitics'
This paper initiates an investigation into the theological andpolitical dynamics surrounding the nature andfunction of money. Contrary to views of money. spontaneous emergence and efficacy, or ideas of its intrinsic worth, I present the understanding of money as an authoritatively instituted sign. W...
| Published in: | Implicit religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2011]
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| In: |
Implicit religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Incarnation
B Money B Power (Social sciences) B Financial markets B Religion & Politics B Hermeneutics B Biopolitics B Capital B Semiotics B MONEY market B Political Theology B Nation-state |
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| Summary: | This paper initiates an investigation into the theological andpolitical dynamics surrounding the nature andfunction of money. Contrary to views of money. spontaneous emergence and efficacy, or ideas of its intrinsic worth, I present the understanding of money as an authoritatively instituted sign. Whether emperor, monarch or state, authorizing institutions and discourses are necessary to render money's performance successful in a given territory. Since in our day this implicates the nation-state, predictions of the state's demise in light of Financial market preponderance appear incoherent. In broaching an analysis of the many elements of money's function in the nexus of power, politics, and economy, I propose the Christian concept of incarnation as a useful hermeneutic. Incarnational dynamics shed light on attempts at an enforced codification of reality by money's semiotic institution by the powers, and open up a space for potential critique. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.v14i2.129 |