Short Circuits and Seizures

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-05 DOI:10.1215/08992363-10575609

Ritu Birla

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Abstract

This essay explores the financialization of liberal governmentality through questions posed by cryptocurrency, especially in its relationship with the monetary coding of the globe since Bretton Woods. Contemporary Global South deployments of crypto foreground political performatives that can be characterized as attempts to short-circuit established global configurations. This modality of speedy bypassing, enabling volatility and seizure, fuels processes of financialization more broadly, which accelerate and shorten circuits of profit making and, in tandem, short-circuit democratic political representation. Crypto magnifies the tension between the semiotics of the social contract among nations moored in rights, and that of currency as a global language. Digital-speculative monetization warns that the social contract, a futures contract for a secure and stable future, may approach the aleatory contract of the futures trade.

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短路和卡死

本文通过加密货币提出的问题，特别是加密货币与布雷顿森林体系以来全球货币编码的关系，探讨了自由政府心态的金融化。当代全球南方加密货币前景政治表演的部署，可以被描述为试图缩短既定的全球配置。这种快速绕过、导致波动和扣押的模式，更广泛地推动了金融化进程，加速和缩短了盈利循环，同时也缩短了民主政治代表性。加密货币放大了各国社会契约的符号学与货币作为全球语言之间的紧张关系。数字投机货币化警告说，社会契约，一个安全稳定的未来的期货契约，可能会接近期货交易的惩罚性契约。

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Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

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期刊介绍： Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.