°Necro-economics

January 20, 2006

Craig already mentioned Warren Montag’s piece, “Necro-economics: Adam Smith and Death in the Life of the Universal”, in the latest Radical Philosophy. Here, Montag begins by proposing a reading of Adam Smith, in the manner of Althusser’s reading of Capital - and those familiar with Althusser will quickly make out Montag’s powerfully conjunctural reading of Smith’s universality, of economic theodicy and consciousness, and the distribution of life (and death).

Filed under: Necropolitics + Montag + Smith + Mbembe
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