... section of the essay follows Michel Foucault's interpretation of the Iranian Revolution to read the cycle of struggles in 2011 as biopolitical struggles. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Michael Hardt Falsify the Currency! ​In his final lectures at the Collège de...

...Brett Neilson Working from the proposition that the body of the migrant presents a new form of global currency, this article explores the nexus of finance and migration. The figure of a global currency registers tensions between circulation and territory. By examining these tensions and exploring...

...Dillon Johnston Dillon Johnston Cross-Currencies in the Culture Market: Arnold, Yeats, Joyce Very early in Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus imag­ ines an Oxford scene with Matthew Arnold cast as the empirical, and therefore visually oriented, horticulturalist of English education: Shouts from the open...

...Hannes Baumann Lebanon’s protests were sparked by economic misery, especially the decline of the long-standing currency peg. What is surprising about the currency collapse is not that it happened at all, but that the country’s unsustainable economic model avoided it for so long. A unique coalition...

... in the developing world. By comparing Bukele’s move with El Salvador’s push to dollarize in 2001, this essay traces a comparable strategy of El Salvador’s economic and political elites where the swap of currencies becomes a vehicle for massive accumulation at the top, while popular classes suffer. Consequently...

... on slaves who had been residents in America for more than six months, and after 1721 Indian slaves and Negroes who had lived in the Spanish colonies were virtually barred by extreme duties (as much as £160 currency) imposed upon them. Twice during the period, the colonial assembly successfully attempted...

... constraint on US foreign expenditures for these pur- poses. This system also placed certain burdens and responsibilities on the United States, which lost its ability to manage the value of its own currency and in theory had to balance its domestic economic management against the needs of the world...

... as a means of enabling the gov­ ernment to finance a war with France. The entire capital stock of the bank was loaned to the government at interest. In return for this loan the bank was authorized to issue notes up to an amount equal to the loan hence the incidental origin of the type of currency which...

... with their economic decisions. The gold currency was the basis of international trade as well as of international capital movements. Through it the various national economies were knitted into a world economy. The war of 1914-1918 wrought havoc with this system. The gold currencies collapsed; international confidence...

... amount of gold. Bank notes appear in their proper character as the elastic portion of the currency. The business of the country is not of fixed, unchanging size. With different seasons of the year it expands and contracts, and sometimes at irregular intervals it undergoes violent and spasmodic...

... of thefederal government of a very large part of the banking and trust-company business now under state control. In this connection it is well to note that Mr. Paul M. Warburg, whose plan of currency reform is so closely resembled by the Aldrich plan, said a year ago that although he was fully aware there were...

.... In essence, this Plan stipulated sums which were to be raised in Germany by taxation, provided they could be raised without disturbing Germany s industry and currency; and, furthermore, the transference of these sums to the cred­ 306 The South Atlantic Quarterly itor governments, provided it could be done...

... shortage of goods had been relieved, and the currency problem seemed more under control. But, as the author shows, new problems of great urgency had come to the fore. Heavy industry, with no backlog of con­ sumer demand, was terribly weak, with little hope of rapid improvement. There was severe...

... of the Governing Commission, to which the latter body need pay no attention. Thus although the Advisory Council had voted against the elimination of the German mark, the Commission on May 18, 1923 promulgated a decree making the French franc the sole legal currency in the Saar Basin. In taking this action...

... ago our experience with managed currencies was limited enough. The combination of a completely managed currency together with author­ itative management of the remainder of the economy which is pos­ sible in a totalitarian state was almost unknown outside of Soviet Russia. In spite of the fact...

.... Consequently, Sweden did alter her ex­ change rate July 5, 1946, but in the opposite direction, cutting the value of the dollar, the pound, and most other foreign currencies by about 14 per cent. Sweden was then facing the problem of in­ flation, not deflation. This drastic alteration of the Swedish exchange...

... Report of Comptroller of the Currency, December 4, 1922, p. 4. Dangers Threatening Federal Reserve System 129 Next to monopoly, there is one more very strong argument against branch banking. In spite of all that is said to the con­ trary, the independent banker is a big asset in the community, especially...

... credit. Calhoun insisted that the question before the country was not credit or no credit, as the Whigs contended, but the way credit could best per­ form the function of a safe and sound currency. The question was whether credit should be extended by private bankers for private profit...

... results. After the famine of 1921, agriculture was going well. Consumers goods, industries, and the railroads were again operating effectively; the acute shortage of goods had been relieved, and the currency problem seemed more under control. But, as the author shows, new problems of great urgency had...

... integrated into the networks); cybernetic technologies (space practically disappears as a barrier as communications advance and electronic currency Tseng 2001.12.19 12:57 Representation, Reality Culture, and Global Capitalism 909...