Political and economic theology after Carl Schmitt: The confessional logic of deferment

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Mura, Andrea. 2022. Political and economic theology after Carl Schmitt: The confessional logic of deferment. Journal for Cultural Research, 26(3-4), pp. 266-278. ISSN 1479-7585 [Article]

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Carl Schmitt’s critical insights into ‘economic-technical thinking’ and the dominant role that a ‘magical technicity’ is said to assume in the social horizon of his times offers an opportunity to reframe contemporary debates on political and economic theology, exposing a theological core behind technocratic administration. Starting from this premise, the article engages with recent inquiries into so-called ‘debt economy’, assessing the affective function that ‘deferment’ and ‘confession’ perform as dominant operators in the social imaginary of neoliberal governance.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2022.2111221