Can the market speak?
By: Campbell Jones
Publisher: Zero Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Winchester, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781846945373
Subjects: Free enterprise; Social aspects; Capitalism
Description: "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."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The spirit is a bone --; title: The market speaks --; title: What do you want? --; title: What kind of person --; title: The voice and will of God --; title: Divine mumbling --; title: The invisible hand of Jupiter --; title: The violence of metonymy --; title: The great disappearing trick --; title: Barbarians.