On divine markets and the problem of justice: Empire as theodicy

Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 56-72

  Maurer, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203644003     Document Type: Chapter

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2. J.K.Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996). J.K.Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham, who have been conducting research on noncapitalist economic formations and querying the very tendency to define them in terms of a negative relation to capitalism.
3. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 69-92. Subsequent references to Empire are given parenthetically in the text.
4. See, generally, Arthur O.Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936).
5. Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics, in R.H.M.Elwes, trans, and ed., The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (New York: Dover Publications, 1951), I, Prop. XVII.
6. See Michael Hardt, "Translator's Forward: The Anatomy of Power," in The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics, by Antonio Negri (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), xi-xvi; Antonio Negri, The Savage Anomaly.
7. Empire, 73. See also Negri, Savage Anomaly, and Negri, "Reliqua desideratur. A Conjecture for a Definition of the Concept of Democracy in the Final Spinoza." In The New Spinoza, ed. Warren Montag and Ted Stolze (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 218-246.
8. Negri, Savage Anomaly, 18.
9. On Islamic banking and the prohibition of riba, see, for example, M.Umer Chapra, Towards a Just Monetary System (Leicester, UK: The Islamic Foundation, 1992);
10. Timur Kuran, "The Genesis of Islamic Economics: A Chapter in the Politics of Muslim Identity," Social Research 64 (1997):301-337;
11. Bill Maurer, "Engineering an Islamic Future: Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives," Anthropology Today 17 (2001):8-11;
12. Bill Maurer, "Anthropological and Accounting Knowledge in Islamic Banking and Finance: Rethinking Critical Accounts," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 8, 4 (2002):645-667.
13. Mahmoud El-Gamal, "An Economic Explication of the Prohibition of riba in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence," in Proceedings of the Third Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance (Cambridge, MA: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 2000), 31-44.
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17. For the example of derivatives trading, see Bill Maurer, "Repressed Futures: Financial Derivatives' Theological Unconsciousness," Economy and Society 31 (2002):15-36.
18. See Toni Mack, "Hidden risks," Forbes 151; 11 (May 24, 1993):54-56;
19. Ronald Fink, "Off again, On again: The FASB Says that Equity Accounting for Unconsolidated Subsidiaries May Not Reflect Reality," CFO Magazine, July 1, 1997.
20. Mack, "Hidden Risks," 54.
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23. Negri, Savage Anomaly, 176.
24. Nancy Cartwright, The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 50.
25. Peter Fitzpatrick, "Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law," Theory and Event 5 (2001), 24. I would like to thank Paul Passavant for pointing me toward this essay.
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27. J.M.Lawrence, C.M.Pomory, J.Sonnenholzner, and C.-M.Chao, "Bilateral Symmetry of the Petals in Mellita tenuis, Encope micropora, and Arachnoides placenta (Echinodermata: Clypeasteroida)" Invertebrate Biology 117 (1998):94-100;
28. S.V.Rozhnov, "The Left-Right Asymmetry in Echinoderms," in R.Mooi and M.Telford, eds., Proceedings of the 9th International Echinoderm Conference, San Francisco, 5-9 August 1996 (Rotterdam: Balkema, 1998), 73-78.
29. See Fitzpatrick, "Bare Sovereignty." The idea of an antisocial theory is derived from the work of authors such as Michel Callon, Bruno Latour, Alain Pottage, and especially Marilyn Strathern. See, for example, the special issue of the journal, Economy and Society 31; 2 (2002) on Callon; Alain Pottage, "Persons and Things: an Ethnographic Analogy," Economy and Society 30 (2001):112-138;
30. Marilyn Strathern, Property, Substance, and Effect (London: Althone Press, 1999).