At the Intersection of Sovereignty and Biopolitics: The Di-Polaric Spatializations of Money
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https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i9.3055Abstract
The paper explores the incentive structures and the structurally rigid social hierarchies inherent in the polarizing logic of modern credit money and the mutual constitution of money’s sovereign and biopolitical dimensions. It is argued that the monetary system constitutes a major transitory channel for the logic of financial capital to transcend the limitations of sovereign spaces and to transform itself into a biopolitical force. The relationship between the material and the subjective – or the sovereign and the biopolitical – dimensions of money is seen as di-polaric rather than di-chotomic – as a mutually constitutive whole between relational dynamics and the normalizing opportunity structures which govern such interaction. If the sovereign and the biopolitical dimensions of money indeed constitute distinct but inseparable moments of the same totality, there would appear to be more room for strategic combination of heterogeneous analytical practices in emancipatory scholarship than what some of the traditional notions of the epistemological politics of power and sovereignty might suggest.Downloads
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2010-09-01
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Auvinen, T. (2010). At the Intersection of Sovereignty and Biopolitics: The Di-Polaric Spatializations of Money. Foucault Studies, (9), 5–34. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i9.3055
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