Financial times: Competing temporalities in the age of finance capitalism

  • This special issue explores how finance deploys time, structures the future, and interacts with actors and institutions that sometimes function according to very different temporal regimes. Finance capitalism’s logic of recurrence, repetitive cycles, and successive ruptures has long been with us, but the essays in this special issue are particularly interested in how recent decades of intensified financialization have restructured temporal experience. They interrogate the production and dissemination of agency in an age of acceleration, risk, and uncertainty, asking how the temporality inscribed in financial transactions emerges from and simultaneously shapes individual and social practice. Topics covered range from the logic of finance and foundational concepts of financial theory to the intersection between objective structures and social practice, the role of literature, and finally questions of social insecurity, political action, and the possibility of resistance within a context of competing temporalities. In this introduction, the editors delineate some fundamental concepts and questions for our financial times.

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Author:Christian Kloeckner, Stefanie Mueller
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-534983
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2218/finsoc.v4i1.2735
ISSN:2059-5999
Parent Title (German):Finance and society
Publisher:University of Edinburgh
Place of publication:Edinburgh
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2018/05/31
Date of first Publication:2018/05/31
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2020/05/02
Tag:US culture; finance; risk; temporality; theory; uncertainty
Volume:4
Issue:1
Page Number:14
First Page:1
Last Page:14
Note:
This is an Open Access journal. All material is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence, unless otherwise stated. Please read our Open Access,
HeBIS-PPN:465070116
Institutes:Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 39 Bräuche, Etikette, Folklore / 390 Bräuche, Etikette, Folklore
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0