Trading futures : a theological critique of financialized capitalism / Filipe Maia.
| Author/creator | Maia, Filipe, 1985- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2022. |
| Description | 208 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Of Edges and Hedges -- Hope in Financial Times -- Futures Denied -- Constructing Futures -- Structure of the Book -- Futures Devoured -- Economies of Debt -- Trading Futures -- Profitable Unknowns -- Promissory Notes -- To Tender a Promise -- A Wagon-Way Through the Air -- Promissory Subjects -- Dead Pledges -- Times that Matter -- Capital Moments -- Chronic Crises -- The Means of Prediction -- Scattered Times -- The Time that is Money -- Clouds Over La Moneda -- God and Capital -- Capital Futures -- Utopian Captivity -- Sighs of the Times -- Gut Theology -- The Flesh of Hope -- Naming Absences -- Fugitive Futures -- Future Unveilings -- Melancholic Hopes. |
| Abstract | "Trading Futures offers a theological reflection about hope and the future in the context of financialized capitalism. Filipe Maia argues that capitalism has established an oppressive mode of imagining the future, where financialization becomes a process of privatizing hope, constraining our sense of what's possible. The hegemony of finance over our global economy has allowed it to construct the future in its image-predictable and manageable-colonizing the future for the sake of profit. The futures of finance promise wealth and prosperity but deliver, for most, economic inequality and the socialization of debt. Drawing on liberation theology, Marxist literature, and critical theory, the author proposes an eschatology of liberation as an alternative, subversive mode of imagining the future, a critical reflection on hope. Maia maintains that Christian eschatology offers a powerful tool for approaching and deconstructing questions of power, time, and equality. In addition, that eschatology provides the imagination and language to summon different realities and options using imagery, poetics, and prophecy. The mode of future-talk that the author weaves from his liberationist sources invokes different, unpredictable realities and options: critical pathways of resistance and potential escape routes from the injustice of financialized capitalism"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Maia, Filipe, 1985- Trading futures Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478023425 |
| LCCN | 2021062186 |
| ISBN | 9781478018780 |
| ISBN | 9781478016144 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1478016140 |
| ISBN | 147801878X |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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