From Primitives to Derivatives

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Benjamin Lee
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n 1984Moishe Postone returned from Frankfurt and became a fellow at the Center for Psychosocial Studies in Chicago; he would immediately run a two-year seminar on volume 1 of Capital that would become Time, Labor, and Social Domination. Three of the contributors to this issue of Critical Historical Studies, Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPuma, and myself, were participants in that now legendary seminar. Moishe was talking about a book on volume 2 of Capital even when he left the center to become a Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago in 1987; it would remain unfinished at his death, but another contributor to this issue, Robert Meister, would attend Moishe’s penultimate seminar on volume 2 in the spring of 2015, which would (finally) determine whether volume 2 was written in the form of an immanent critique, as Moishe maintained volume 1 was. In 1988, the center began a collaboration with Pierre Bourdieu that introduced an anthropological perspective on the development of capitalism. Moishe would join Craig and Ed in editing Pierre Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives, and Ed and I, inspired by Bourdieu and Moishe, would write Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk, which would set us down the path of derivative finance; we would ultimately join Bob Meister and Randy Martin in a working seminar on derivatives organized by Arjun Appadurai at New York University. Ed, Bob, and I often argued with Moishe about the role of derivative finance in late capitalism, and as Bob relates in his essay, although Moishe saw derivatives as producing unprecedented wealth, he did not see them as producing a new form of value even as value became increasingly anachronistic in an age of finance-driven capitalism; it was the contradiction between value and wealth that was propelling late capitalism.
从原始到衍生
1984年,moishe Postone从法兰克福回来,成为芝加哥社会心理研究中心的一名研究员;他马上组织了一个为期两年的研讨会,讨论《资本论》第一卷,也就是后来的《时间、劳动和社会统治》。本期《批判历史研究》的三位撰稿人,克雷格·卡尔霍恩、爱德华·利普马和我本人,都参加了那次传奇般的研讨会。1987年Moishe离开中心成为芝加哥大学的哈珀研究员的时候他还在讨论一本关于《资本论》第二卷的书;在他死后,这本书仍未完成,但这个问题的另一位撰稿人罗伯特·迈斯特(Robert Meister)将在2015年春天参加Moishe关于第二卷的第二个研讨会,这将(最终)决定第二卷是否以内在批判的形式写成,就像Moishe所坚持的第一卷一样。1988年,该中心开始与皮埃尔·布迪厄(Pierre Bourdieu)合作,介绍了资本主义发展的人类学视角。Moishe将与Craig和Ed一起编辑Pierre Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives, Ed和我受到Bourdieu和Moishe的启发,将撰写《金融衍生品和风险全球化》,这将使我们走上衍生品金融的道路;我们最终和鲍勃·梅斯特和兰迪·马丁一起参加了纽约大学阿琼·阿帕杜莱组织的一个关于衍生品的工作研讨会。埃德、鲍勃和我经常与莫伊斯争论衍生品金融在晚期资本主义中的作用,正如鲍勃在他的文章中所述,尽管莫伊斯认为衍生品创造了前所未有的财富,但他并不认为它们创造了一种新的价值形式,即使价值在金融驱动的资本主义时代变得越来越不合时宜;正是价值与财富之间的矛盾推动了晚期资本主义的发展。
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