Credo Credit Crisis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Speculative exchange: Between religion and economics

Section one: Modernity and the trajectories of sovereignty

1 The ascendancy of finance: Toward a concept of Seignioral power

2 Hobbes, sovereign power and money

3 ‘Accelerator despite Itself’: Credo, crisis, Katechon

Section two: The living soul of money

4 The Bank of England in ruins: Photography, money and the law of equivalence

5 Seeing is believing: Looking at the gold standard

6 Universal Shylockery: Money and morality in The Merchant of Venice

7 ‘We are all prostitutes’: Crisis and libidinal economy

8 The materiality of belief: On the real death of Mammon

Section three: Speculation and critique

9 Impotent signs: Money, speculative subjectivity and the ontological proof

10 Speculation upon speculation; or, a contribution to the critique of philosophical economy

11 Believing in deconstruction

Section four: Future revelations

12 Credit and investment: A matter of faith

13 How do we know we have a future?

Index

Notes on contributors