Ole Bjerg
Biographic Data
| ID | 295068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ole Bjerg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ole |
| FAMILY NAME | Bjerg |
| SIGNATURE | BJERG O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3310-6680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Interview with Ole Bjerg
2000 . ( 2007 .) ( )
Making Money
Уле Бьерг предлагает философский анализ феномена денег в современном капитализме. Вопросы, связанные с денежными отношениями, осмысляются через идеи Славоя Жижека, Жака Лакана и Мартина Хайдеггера. Автор рассматривает существующие теории денег, разбирает актуальные экономические теории и моделирует процесс создания банками денег, чтобы показать основные принципы функционирования финансовой системы в современном обществе. Он настаивает: вопрос о с…
Conspiracy Theory
The paper is a contribution to current debates about conspiracy theories within philosophy and cultural studies. Wittgenstein's understanding of language is invoked to analyse the epistemological effects of designating particular questions and explanations as a 'conspiracy theory'. It is demonstrated how such a designation relegates these questions and explanations beyond the realm of meaningful discourse. In addition, Agamben's concept of sovere…
How is Bitcoin Money
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic payment system that operates as an independent currency. This paper is a philosophical investigation of the ontological constitution of Bitcoin. Using Slavoj Žižek's ontological triad of the real, the symbolic and the imaginary, the paper distinguishes between three ideal typical theories of money: commodity theory, fiat theory, and credit theory. The constitution of Bitcoin is analysed by comparing the curren…
Making ‘Making money
Stephen Dunne recently sat down with Ole Bjerg to chair a discussion about his new book Making Money: The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism (Verso, 2014). We publish an elaborated version of the book's concluding chapter - ‘Life after Debt’ - within this special issue. This interview and question and answer session puts Ole's argument there, as well as the arguments of his book more generally, into a broader context
Is there life after debt? Revolution in the age of financial capitalism
What happens to classic Marxist notions of revolution, exploitation and class struggle under the premise that we live in the age of financial rather than industrial capitalism? In this essay I argue that the logic of finance is the main structuring principle of the circulation of value, capital, and money today. Accordingly, we should no longer just think of class struggle in terms of workers and capitalists but also in terms of debtors and credi…
Poker
Too Close to the Money
This article explores the relationship between gambling and capitalism. The subjective being of the compulsive gambler provides insight into the role of money in capitalism. Using the Lacanian approach of Žižek, money is analysed as a sublime object of capitalist ideology. In gambling, however, the subject engages money in a very direct encounter with the Lacanian 'Real', circumventing the ordinary symbolic order of capitalism. This results in a …
Drug Addiction and Capitalism
Hvordan er systemteorien mulig
How is Systems Theory possible? This article tries to undercover some of the fundamental premises of Niklas Luhmann’s Systems Theory by looking at its way of asking questions. The question: “how is communication possible?” is seen to be the theory’s core question, and the concept of autopoietic social systems the answer to this question. Inspired by Nietzsche’s critique of the Kantian question: “how are synthetic propositions a priori possible?” …
Accelerating Luhmann
The article is an inquiry into 'the other side' of Luhmann's own concept of reduction of complexity. This inquiry turns out to also be an inquiry into the other side of modernity. What is found is the production of complexity as an inherent part of postmodernity. In the same way that society is both modem and 'post-', systems operate in dialectic oscillation between complexity reduction and complexity production. To facilitate the observation of …
Die Welt als Wille und System / The World as Will and System
Dieser Aufsatz wirft die oft gestellte kritische Frage nach der Stellung des Menschen in Luhmanns Systemtheorie auf. Indem die Frage im Rahmen von Schopenhauers Philosophie und insbesondere seines Begriffs des Willens formuliert wird, umgeht sie die geläufige Antwort der Systemtheorie, dass der Mensch nur ein Umweltkorrelat der Beobachtungen der Systeme sei. Stattdessen wird argumentiert, dass die Systemtheorie in der Form ihrer Erklärungsweise, …
How is Bitcoin Money
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic payment system that operates as an independent currency. This paper is a philosophical investigation of the ontological constitution of Bitcoin. Using Slavoj Žižek's ontological triad of the real, the symbolic and the imaginary, the paper distinguishes between three ideal typical theories of money: commodity theory, fiat theory, and credit theory. The constitution of Bitcoin is analysed by comparing the curren…
Conspiracy Theory
The paper is a contribution to current debates about conspiracy theories within philosophy and cultural studies. Wittgenstein's understanding of language is invoked to analyse the epistemological effects of designating particular questions and explanations as a 'conspiracy theory'. It is demonstrated how such a designation relegates these questions and explanations beyond the realm of meaningful discourse. In addition, Agamben's concept of sovere…
Drug Addiction and Capitalism
Too Close to the Money
This article explores the relationship between gambling and capitalism. The subjective being of the compulsive gambler provides insight into the role of money in capitalism. Using the Lacanian approach of Žižek, money is analysed as a sublime object of capitalist ideology. In gambling, however, the subject engages money in a very direct encounter with the Lacanian 'Real', circumventing the ordinary symbolic order of capitalism. This results in a …
Accelerating Luhmann
The article is an inquiry into 'the other side' of Luhmann's own concept of reduction of complexity. This inquiry turns out to also be an inquiry into the other side of modernity. What is found is the production of complexity as an inherent part of postmodernity. In the same way that society is both modem and 'post-', systems operate in dialectic oscillation between complexity reduction and complexity production. To facilitate the observation of …
Die Welt als Wille und System / The World as Will and System
Dieser Aufsatz wirft die oft gestellte kritische Frage nach der Stellung des Menschen in Luhmanns Systemtheorie auf. Indem die Frage im Rahmen von Schopenhauers Philosophie und insbesondere seines Begriffs des Willens formuliert wird, umgeht sie die geläufige Antwort der Systemtheorie, dass der Mensch nur ein Umweltkorrelat der Beobachtungen der Systeme sei. Stattdessen wird argumentiert, dass die Systemtheorie in der Form ihrer Erklärungsweise, …
Die Welt als Wille und System / The World as Will and System
Dieser Aufsatz wirft die oft gestellte kritische Frage nach der Stellung des Menschen in Luhmanns Systemtheorie auf. Indem die Frage im Rahmen von Schopenhauers Philosophie und insbesondere seines Begriffs des Willens formuliert wird, umgeht sie die geläufige Antwort der Systemtheorie, dass der Mensch nur ein Umweltkorrelat der Beobachtungen der Systeme sei. Stattdessen wird argumentiert, dass die Systemtheorie in der Form ihrer Erklärungsweise, …
Hvordan er systemteorien mulig
How is Systems Theory possible? This article tries to undercover some of the fundamental premises of Niklas Luhmann’s Systems Theory by looking at its way of asking questions. The question: “how is communication possible?” is seen to be the theory’s core question, and the concept of autopoietic social systems the answer to this question. Inspired by Nietzsche’s critique of the Kantian question: “how are synthetic propositions a priori possible?” …
Accelerating Luhmann
The article is an inquiry into 'the other side' of Luhmann's own concept of reduction of complexity. This inquiry turns out to also be an inquiry into the other side of modernity. What is found is the production of complexity as an inherent part of postmodernity. In the same way that society is both modem and 'post-', systems operate in dialectic oscillation between complexity reduction and complexity production. To facilitate the observation of …
Drug Addiction and Capitalism
Too Close to the Money
This article explores the relationship between gambling and capitalism. The subjective being of the compulsive gambler provides insight into the role of money in capitalism. Using the Lacanian approach of Žižek, money is analysed as a sublime object of capitalist ideology. In gambling, however, the subject engages money in a very direct encounter with the Lacanian 'Real', circumventing the ordinary symbolic order of capitalism. This results in a …
Poker
Making ‘Making money
Stephen Dunne recently sat down with Ole Bjerg to chair a discussion about his new book Making Money: The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism (Verso, 2014). We publish an elaborated version of the book's concluding chapter - ‘Life after Debt’ - within this special issue. This interview and question and answer session puts Ole's argument there, as well as the arguments of his book more generally, into a broader context
Is there life after debt? Revolution in the age of financial capitalism
What happens to classic Marxist notions of revolution, exploitation and class struggle under the premise that we live in the age of financial rather than industrial capitalism? In this essay I argue that the logic of finance is the main structuring principle of the circulation of value, capital, and money today. Accordingly, we should no longer just think of class struggle in terms of workers and capitalists but also in terms of debtors and credi…
How is Bitcoin Money
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic payment system that operates as an independent currency. This paper is a philosophical investigation of the ontological constitution of Bitcoin. Using Slavoj Žižek's ontological triad of the real, the symbolic and the imaginary, the paper distinguishes between three ideal typical theories of money: commodity theory, fiat theory, and credit theory. The constitution of Bitcoin is analysed by comparing the curren…
Conspiracy Theory
The paper is a contribution to current debates about conspiracy theories within philosophy and cultural studies. Wittgenstein's understanding of language is invoked to analyse the epistemological effects of designating particular questions and explanations as a 'conspiracy theory'. It is demonstrated how such a designation relegates these questions and explanations beyond the realm of meaningful discourse. In addition, Agamben's concept of sovere…
Interview with Ole Bjerg
2000 . ( 2007 .) ( )
Making Money
Уле Бьерг предлагает философский анализ феномена денег в современном капитализме. Вопросы, связанные с денежными отношениями, осмысляются через идеи Славоя Жижека, Жака Лакана и Мартина Хайдеггера. Автор рассматривает существующие теории денег, разбирает актуальные экономические теории и моделирует процесс создания банками денег, чтобы показать основные принципы функционирования финансовой системы в современном обществе. Он настаивает: вопрос о с…
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