Money is most usually considered as a medium of exchange, a means to
effect outcomes, a status symbol. By contrast, this course will
consider the modes of sociality money’s shifting forms of organization
and arrangement have ordered, the cultures to which it has given
risen, the logics it effects. The course will consider how money
shapes the contrasting logics of market and contract, of political
economy and social legality, of civil society and the state, of home
oeconomicus and homo politicus, of liberal and neoliberal modes of
rule and regulation.
We will read, among other things, Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of
Money: A Financial History of the World, Ernest Borneman, The
Psychoanalysis of Money; Philip Goodchild’s Theology of Money; David
Harvey’s A Short History of Neoliberalism, Foucault’s Lectures on The
Birth of Biopolitics, Edward LiPuma and Benjamin Lee’s Financial
Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk; Aiwa Ong’s Neoliberalism
as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty; and Naomi
Klein’s The Shock Doctrne: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.Time
permitting, we might also read novels like Martin Amis’s Money and Don
DeLillo’s Cosmopolis,
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