The Order of Crisis Time: A Temporal Revolution of Capitalism
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Lotte List
Titel
Researcher
Institution
University of Bologna, Italy
Beløb
DKK 1,100,000
År
2023
Bevillingstype
Internationalisation Fellowships
Hvad?
The project investigates the intellectual historical relationship between a notion of modernity as crisis time and the ordering of time during the transition to capitalist production. While crisis and order are seemingly opposites, I investigate their intertwinement in philosophies of history in classical liberal economics.
Hvorfor?
Our time is often characterized as a time of crisis. This crisis discourse has become predominant in contemporary political debate and sets the framework for how we think about politics and governance. In order to free political thought from the restraints of this framework, it is necessary to locate our present moment in a longer historical tradition of crisis narratives.
Hvordan?
Through a theoretical approach combining the conceptual history of crisis with critiques of capitalism’s restructuring of time, I analyze crisis theories in liberal economics as theories of modern historical time. This historical analysis forms the basis for a critique of contemporary crisis discourse as taking for granted the crisis structure of time.