When Money Thinks
- Philosophies of Capitalism as Entity and Alternative Worldings
Lecturer
Date
- 11 September 2025– Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, HS, Denmark (Porcelænshaven)
Keywords
Finance, Philosophy, Technology, Capitalism, Algorithms
Abstract
This talk explores histories of capital as a form of transcendental agent with its own motivation, libidinal drives and alignment and how in the current AI-enabled reality taking these ideas seriously allows us novel ways of proposing routes of engagement with financialized technologies and the multitude ramifications of their application. When we look at the manifestations of capitalism, such as mega-corporations, and how they’re gaining increasing subjecthood both in legal- and speculative sense (i.e. how we speak of them as egregorial entities), how machine intelligence is increasingly running the flesh of markets and societies, how predictive algorithms form the basis for policies and understandings, while also shadow-generating the conditions for them, it foregrounds the necessity of theories that account for the agency of non-human processes. Drawing on a genealogy of philosophy which takes seriously the functional implications of capital as agential transcendental subjectivity, updating it into an age where the wheels have come off and humans-as-engineers are arguably not piloting everything any longer. From Weird-Marx’s theory of value as a self-valorizing subjectivity, Deleuze & Guattari’s exploration of capitalism’s evolution using the human socius as it’s fuel to further intensify and contemporary investigations abstractly posing capital as an outside force and the entanglement of temporalities and money, this paper explores how these narratives form a stream of thought that might allow us to propose lines of flight not otherwise available through the lens of perfectly controlled, humanly aligned financial market processes.
Title of Event
Finance & Society Conference '25
Location
Address
- Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, HS, Denmark
- Copenhagen
- Denmark
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