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Clickbait Capitalism: A Panel Discussion
No full textThe Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to welcome panellists Carolyn Biltoft (Graduate Institute Geneva), Earl Gammon (Sussex), Emily Rosamond (Goldsmiths) and Amin Samman (City). Chaired by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou (CCS Director)
Ghali Amin Oral History
No full textGalal Amin was an economics professor the American University in Cairo from the late 1970s through the early 2000s, in addition to being a renowned Egyptian public intellectual, author, and columnist. He describes his father, a prominent academic, and outlines his own early education and life as a graduate student in London, and early career as an economist in Kuwait. He mentions early teaching stints at AUC starting in 1967, contrasting the social class of students then with those in later years, and tells how he came permanently to AUC later in the 1970s. Amin briefly outlines changes in the Economics department over the years, and offers some commentary on AUC students (specifically changes in academic quality over time). He also speaks about the university’s relationship with Egyptian politics and government, including an anecdote about an AUC committee he served on after the 1973 war. His research interests and writings are also covered
Galal Amin Oral History
No full textGalal Amin was an economics professor the American University in Cairo from the late 1970s through the early 2000s, in addition to being a renowned Egyptian public intellectual, author, and columnist. He describes his father, a prominent academic, and outlines his own early education and life as a graduate student in London, and early career as an economist in Kuwait. He mentions early teaching stints at AUC starting in 1967, contrasting the social class of students then with those in later years, and tells how he came permanently to AUC later in the 1970s. Amin briefly outlines changes in the Economics department over the years, and offers some commentary on AUC students (specifically changes in academic quality over time). He also speaks about the university’s relationship with Egyptian politics and government, including an anecdote about an AUC committee he served on after the 1973 war. His research interests and writings are also covered
Clickbait capitalism: Economies of desire in the twenty-first century
No full textPanel for 14th Annual Critical Finance Studies Conference
Organiser
• Amin Samman, City, University of London
Chair
• Elke Schwarz, Queen Mary University of London
Panellists
• Amin Samman, City, University of London
• Earl Gammon, University of Sussex
• Sandy Hager, City, University of London
• Emily Rosamond, Goldsmiths, University of London
Panel abstract
The notion of ‘clickbait’ speaks to the intersection of money, technology, and desire, suggesting a cunning ruse to profit from unsavoury inclinations of one kind or another. This panel pursues the idea that the entire contemporary economy is just such a ruse; an elaborate exercise in psychological capture and release. Pushing beyond rationalist accounts of economic life, the papers presented here put psychoanalysis and political economy into conversation with the cutting edges of capitalist development. Perennial questions of death, sex, aggression, enjoyment, despair, hope, and revenge are followed onto the terrain of the contemporary, with discussion devoted to social media, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs. The result will be a unique and compelling portrait of the latest institutions to stage, channel, or reconfigure the psychic energies of political and economic life
Qasim Amin y John Stuart Mill: las razones de la esclavitud femenina
No full textQasim Amin (1863/5-1908) was not the first Arab author in the context of contemporary Islam who wrote and campaigned for the liberation of women, but has been considered the first theorist and the antecedent par excellence in the history of the Egyptian feminist movement. The aim of this paper is to characterize the author feminism in relation to its assessment of the crisis in the Arab world. In particular, I focus on the following issues: Amin’s thesis on female slavery and the relationship between its causes and reformism of the author, according to the criteria he himself points out: freedom and common interest. To further characterize his position, I also consider Amin’s thesis in relation to some of the criticisms and proposals of Stuart Mill on the subjugation of women, one of his sources of inspiration.Qasim Amin (1863/5-1908) no fue el primer autor árabe que en el contexto del islam contemporáneo escribió y militó a favor de la liberación de las mujeres, pero ha sido considerado el primer teórico y el antecedente por excelencia del movimiento feminista egipcio. El objetivo de este artículo es caracterizar el feminismo del autor en relación a su diagnóstico sobre la crisis de mundo árabe. Me centro para ello en las siguientes cuestiones: las tesis de Amin sobre la esclavitud femenina y la articulación entre sus causas y el reformismo del autor atendiendo a los criterios que él mismo señala: la libertad y el interés común. Para caracterizar mejor su posición, considero también las tesis de Amin en relación a algunas de las críticas y propuestas de Stuart Mill sobre el sometimiento del mujer, al ser Mill una de sus fuentes de inspiración
Capital as Death Denial
No full textTerror Management Theory (TMT) argues that subconscious fears about death shape our behaviour in often disturbing and destructive ways. Building on the work of Ernest Becker, the core theoretical claim of TMT is that human activity, including all forms of culture, is ‘…designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.’
Capitalism is unlike anything that preceded it, and this novelty stems from a specific behaviour amongst capitalists that leads to sustained growth: the routine reinvestment of profits in the anticipation of future profitability. What might this novel feature of capitalism have to do with death denial? What kind of phenomenological specificity is bound up with this historical specificity? My aim in this chapter is to tackle these questions, primarily through a comparison between the role of death in capitalism and the archaic gift economy.
My argument can be summarised as follows. First, I place the archaic gift economy, organised around the redistribution and destruction of surplus, on the low end of the death denial continuum. Archaic economic activity is collective and sacred, actively involving the dead and death in order to make payable the existential debts that haunt us from the moment of biological birth. Cyclical time and periodic redemptive ritual are purposefully designed to prevent accumulation of anything, whether it be wealth, power, time, anxiety, or guilt. Second, I place the capitalist economy, organised around the routine reinvestment of surplus for profit, on the high end of the death denial continuum. With capitalism, economic activity is individualised and de-sacralised and the dead and death are banished, resulting in unpayable debts. Capital accumulation is the primary psychological defence mechanism, a power intended to stave off mortal dread. But because accumulation rests on linear time and is shorn of redemptive and sacrificial ritual, guilt and anxiety also start to accumulate. The system is driven by an endless and increasing neurotic charge. Third, I claim that since the 1970s, capitalist death denial has intensified. Structural transformations in the so-called ‘advanced’ economies over the past few decades have dissolved the remaining vestiges of collectivism in economic life and shattered any shared vision of social progress. The result is a disintegration of the remaining collective outlets needed to share, expiate, and to some extent relieve, the cumulative guilt and anxiety of capitalist life. Intensified death denial in the contemporary era finds its most spectacular manifestation in Silicon Valley’s quest for literal immortality. This privatised immortality project is a morbid escapism intended to hive the ruling class off from the irredeemable masses
Social networks and serendipitous desire
No full textSocial media platforms present life as a networked space of possibility, where one chance encounter with a former colleague or contact might open new opportunities and life paths. This chapter shows how the desire for serendipity reworks neoliberal myths of entrepreneurship while further enriching those who control the mapping of social networks
Capital as Death Denial
No full textTerror Management Theory (TMT) argues that subconscious fears about death shape our behaviour in often disturbing and destructive ways. Building on the work of Ernest Becker, the core theoretical claim of TMT is that human activity, including all forms of culture, is ‘…designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.’
Capitalism is unlike anything that preceded it, and this novelty stems from a specific behaviour amongst capitalists that leads to sustained growth: the routine reinvestment of profits in the anticipation of future profitability. What might this novel feature of capitalism have to do with death denial? What kind of phenomenological specificity is bound up with this historical specificity? My aim in this chapter is to tackle these questions, primarily through a comparison between the role of death in capitalism and the archaic gift economy.
My argument can be summarised as follows. First, I place the archaic gift economy, organised around the redistribution and destruction of surplus, on the low end of the death denial continuum. Archaic economic activity is collective and sacred, actively involving the dead and death in order to make payable the existential debts that haunt us from the moment of biological birth. Cyclical time and periodic redemptive ritual are purposefully designed to prevent accumulation of anything, whether it be wealth, power, time, anxiety, or guilt. Second, I place the capitalist economy, organised around the routine reinvestment of surplus for profit, on the high end of the death denial continuum. With capitalism, economic activity is individualised and de-sacralised and the dead and death are banished, resulting in unpayable debts. Capital accumulation is the primary psychological defence mechanism, a power intended to stave off mortal dread. But because accumulation rests on linear time and is shorn of redemptive and sacrificial ritual, guilt and anxiety also start to accumulate. The system is driven by an endless and increasing neurotic charge. Third, I claim that since the 1970s, capitalist death denial has intensified. Structural transformations in the so-called ‘advanced’ economies over the past few decades have dissolved the remaining vestiges of collectivism in economic life and shattered any shared vision of social progress. The result is a disintegration of the remaining collective outlets needed to share, expiate, and to some extent relieve, the cumulative guilt and anxiety of capitalist life. Intensified death denial in the contemporary era finds its most spectacular manifestation in Silicon Valley’s quest for literal immortality. This privatised immortality project is a morbid escapism intended to hive the ruling class off from the irredeemable masses
Broadband electrical test and characterization methods for energy storage devices and materials
No full textAuthor Amin MoradpourDissertation Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 2023Arbeit auf den öffentlichen PCs in den Bibliotheken der JKU+Medizin abrufba
PROSEDUR ADMINISTRASI PENJUALAN PADA AMIN MOTOR BANYUWANGI
No full textProper sales administration procedures and using the implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) will influence the development of the company. The purpose of this research is to know and understand the procedures for selling Yamaha motorcycles at Amin Motor Banyuwangi. The type of research used is descriptive research, namely the author conducts interviews, observations and documentation obtained in the field. The results showed that the sales administration procedures at Amin Motor Banyuwangi were in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). The documents and records used in cash and credit sales transactions at Amin Motor Banyuwangi are effective, this can be seen from the complete documents and records used, from sales orders, credit applications, delivery orders, sales invoices and proof documents payment
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