Debt time is straight time
In this article, I examine certain features of contemporary capitalism with particular attention to the temporal, spatial, social, and person-forming aspects of debt. Debt is difficult to dislodge because it mobilizes the individual and social promise-making capacities of human beings so that the fu...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2016]
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Political theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 5, Pages: 434-448 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Capitalism
/ Debt
/ Future
/ Queer theory
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology NBE Anthropology NCE Business ethics |
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| Summary: | In this article, I examine certain features of contemporary capitalism with particular attention to the temporal, spatial, social, and person-forming aspects of debt. Debt is difficult to dislodge because it mobilizes the individual and social promise-making capacities of human beings so that the future is determined by promises made in the past. I argue that the demonic, larger-than-life powers of debt can be countered by queer prophetic performances that create temporal and spatial contiguities between people who then become a "we." |
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| ISSN: | 1462-317X |
| Reference: | Kritik in ""Love in a time of capital" (2016)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2016.1211289 |