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Alf Hornborg

Alf Hornborg

Professor emeritus

Alf Hornborg

Defetishizing money : Perspectives from economic anthropology

Författare

  • Alf Hornborg

Summary, in English

Following up on Steve Gudeman’s insight that economic categories are fundamentally cultural, this lecture juxtaposes different perspectives on money that transcend the conventional society/nature divide. It considers money as a unique semiotic phenomenon that imperils life itself by accelerating the production of entropy. The “agency” of the money artifact extends beyond society into the physical metabolism of the biosphere. Money organizes and obscures asymmetric global transfers of biophysical resources, generating impoverishment as the flip side of accumulation. In attributing indexical value to money, the modern economy pivots on fetishism. To assume responsibility for the sign systems through which humans interact with the remainder of the biosphere, it would be theoretically possible to redesign money to create a “multicentric” economy that localizes social metabolism and mitigates global inequalities. The lecture briefly sketches a utopian vision of an economy that distributes a complementary currency for local use as a universal basic income.

Avdelning/ar

  • Humanekologi

Publiceringsår

2024-09-20

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

310-319

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Volym

14

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

University of Cambridge * The Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2049-1115