期刊名称：Collegium : Studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
印刷版ISSN：1796-2986
出版年度：2013
卷号：14
出版社：Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
摘要：This paper reviews distinc t c ritical writings on the current global economic crisis in order to suggest that the c ris is represents a distinctly new form of actor-network capitalism, originating in the hybrid financial innovations since the 1970s, the explosive growth in cyber-space potential during the 1990s and the subsuming of the State by finance that accompanied these two processes. The paper proposes the evolution of what is referred to as ultracapital (capital beyond capital) from within the global financial ser vices sector, as a relational space in which to examine actants , networks and processes . Hybrid cyber-, juridical and socio-political spaces are considered in outline alongside the increasingly sophisticated development of new financial services instruments driven by IT innovation toward the fundamental detachment of value from price. These c onsiderations suggest that many of the par tial views on the economic crisis within the disciplines of geography, ec onomics and politics need to be re-thought us ing cross- disc iplinary, holistic analyses that utilize relational and actor-network theorization. Finally, the paper suggests that global economic events since 20 07 are not just another episode in a series of crises which are endemic to capitalism, but a transitional phase towards an entirely different capitalist topology
