What Kind of Subject is the Market
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20187599 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Campbell Jones (0000-0001-5597-9218, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 72 |
| Pages | 131-145 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Formations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2378 • E-ISSN: 1741-0789 |
| Publisher | Lawrence and Wishart (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3898/newf.72.10.2011 |
| OpenAlex | W2056783162 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
Up to and during the latest series of financial crises, we have seen the market represented as a kind of subject, one with desires and will, a subject that is capable of responding in extreme fashion if this will is contravened. Given this subjectivisation of the market and the concomitant attribution of powers, we ask: if the market is a subject, what kind of subject is it? As psychoanalysis stresses that the subject is not master of its own home, the market is likewise a strangely homeless subject - on the one hand it manifests in the form of an imagined singular, subjective agent and on the other as a mysterious and ungraspable, unknowable yet powerful force. Suspecting the magic that attributes such powers to the market, this absolute master that is the market is here called to account
Economics · Library science · Sociology · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Policy · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |