Time of Money Adkins LisaPaperback
Time of Money Adkins LisaPaperback Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the financial sphere. Replacing a logic…
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Time of Money Adkins LisaPaperback
Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the financial sphere. Replacing a logic of extraction, speculation changes our relationship to time and organizes our social worlds to maximize the productive capacities of populations around flows of money for finance capital. It argues that the expansion of finance has created a distinctive social world, one that demands a speculative stance toward life in general.
Examining five features of our contemporary economy, Lisa Adkins reveals the operations of this speculative rationality. Speculative practices have become a matter of survival, and defining features of our age are hardwired to their operations--stagnant wages, indebtedness, the centrality of women's earnings to the household, workfarism, and more. Moving beyond claims that indebtedness is