A Dialectical Reading of Crisis and Recovery Abstract Introducing the ‘Idea of Marx’ will allow us to question recent discourses about Finance Capital that emerged during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and that have acquired a taken-for-granted quality in these times of ‘Imagined Recovery’. The ‘engine’ which will allow us to move in the ‘idea of Marx’ goes by the name of the dialectic. We believe that a dialectical reading of financial press coverage1 has the potential to generate new imaginings beyond the common-sense one of ‘recovery’, thus keeping the way open for the coming of something (radically) different. Our dialectical reading results in four (perhaps) wayward theses:
1. There has been no ‘Crisis of Capitalism’ 2. We must change the valence of the GFC from negative to positive 3. The relationship between finance capitalism and ‘free markets’ is deeply problematic 4. We must resist the regulation discourse full: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1765811 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
