Abstract
In the previous chapter, a minimal social theory was drawn from the work of Deleuze and Guattari. The essential feature of this theory was the component we have called the social surface — the intensive locus in which processes are inscribed. This will allow us to close the circle of the investigation that began with the consideration of derivatives, and to explain the nature of the relationship between the market and the social.
The capitalist axiomatic — The State in capitalism: postulates and components — The agency of axiomatisation — The market as the surface of capitalism — From the State to states of the market — Free market, efficient market — Globality and locality — The vinculum of debt.
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Annelise Riles, Collateral Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011). Deleuze and Guattari themselves make heavy use of anthropological work in the Capitalism and Schizophrenia volumes. It seems, as a result, no less than imperative that we continue to bring to bear work in this discipline to their analyses with an eye to making ourselves equal with the contemporary situation.
Fabien Muniesa’s work on price as sign, which we have already seen and which does not require as much by way of metaphysical commitments as the argument here does, is already more than enough to scuttle Fama’s approach, since, as he argues, there is a plurality of ways in which price ‘ensigns’. Not only is ‘the pragmatics of pricing’ (379) immensely varied, the tripartite distinction between icon, index and symbol that Muniesa draws from Peirce also fractures the presupposed unity of prices as signs that Fama’s work collects under the extremely charged term ‘reflects’. See Fabian Muniesa, ‘Market technologies and the pragmatics of prices,’ Economy and Society, 36:3 (2007), 377–95.
Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, not a Camera (Minneapolis: MIT Press, 2008), 242.
Karen Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger, ‘Global Microfinance: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets,’ American Journal of Sociology 107:4 (2002), 907.
It is due to this analysis that Henri Lefebvre’s entirely unwarranted critique of Deleuze and Guattari — that they ‘[neglect] centres and centrality; in a word the global’ (quoted in Stuart Elden, Understanding Henri Lefebvre: theory and the possible [London: Continuum, 2004], 240) — is clearly false, the product of a particularly miserly reading of the text.
Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1, Part 2, edited by Friedrich Engels (New York: Cosimo, 2007), 827.
Pierre Clastres, Archeaology of Violence, trans. Jeanine Herman (Los Angeles: semiotext(e), 2010), 203–4.
The key passage are found in David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years (New York: Melville, 2011), Chapter 3, ‘Primordial Debts.’ (43–72).
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Roffe, J. (2015). States of the Market. In: Abstract Market Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137511751_7
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