Trading Futures: A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism
Trading Futures: A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism
by Filipe Maia
Duke University Press, 2022 Cloth: 978-1-4780-1614-4 | Paper: 978-1-4780-1878-0 | eISBN: 978-1-4780-2342-5 Library of Congress Classification BR115.C3M235 2022
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The discourse of financialized capitalism tries to create a future predictable enough to manage risk for the wealthy, to shape the future into a profit-making site that constrains and privatizes the sense of what’s possible. Here, people’s hopes and meaning-making energies are policed through the burden of debt. In Trading Futures Filipe Maia offers a theological reflection on hope and the future, calling for escape routes from the debt economy. Drawing on Marxism, continental philosophy, and Latin American liberation theology, Maia provides a critical portrayal of financialization as a death-dealing mechanism that colonizes the future in its own image. Maia elaborates a Christian eschatology of liberation that offers a subversive mode of imagining future possibilities. He shows how the Christian vocabulary of hope can offer a way to critique the hegemony of financialized capitalism, propelling us in the direction of a just future that financial discourse cannot manage or control.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Filipe Maia is Assistant Professor of Theology at Boston University.
REVIEWS
"In short scope and lucid prose, Felipe Maia’s Trading Futures makes a provocative argument about such fundamental topics as justice, capitalism, theology, and time. . . . Trading Futures effectively shows that agents of financial capitalism and theologians of liberation can differ profoundly in their orientations toward the future."
-- Matthew Scherer Perspectives On Politics
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface ix Introduction. Of Edges and Hedges 1 1. Futures Devoured 23 2. Promissory Notes 40 3. Times That Matter 62 4. The Time That Is Money 86 5. Sighs of the Times 110 6. Fugitive Futures 130 Notes 149 Bibliography 181 Index 197
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