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Of interest to list-members... Economy + Society Summer School Virtual Lecture Series: Markets and Martketisation: Stefan Schwarzkopf: 10-11am: Tuesday 9th March Hosted on Zoom: Get Tickets via our: website<https://economyandsocietysummerschool.org/> : and Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/economy-and-society-summer-school-2021-tickets-136810091667> In this seminar, we will ask how ’the’ market came to be envisaged as a social space that cannot be fully known and anticipated, as a mysterium tremendum et fascinans. Applying the Foucaultian methodology of the archeology of ideas, dispositions and social technologies, we will – paradoxically – start with Foucault’s own notion of the market as a ’free port’, a space free from political interventions and the all-seeing eye of the sovereign. Tracing this notion backwards, we do not only find it in the writings of the liberal thinkers associated with the Mont Pelerin Society and the 1938 Colloque Walter Lippmann, but also much earlier in the writings of early nineteenth-century Anglican theologians who taught on matters economic. A deeper reading of these Anglican authors reveals that their crucial separation of economics from theology was based on notions of ’market mechanisms’ and ’market forces’, which earlier theologians such as Martin Luther, Thomas Aquinas and Ibn Taimiyyah equally entertained. In the dicussion part that follows after my short presentation, we might ask what this theological tracing exercise might mean for our reading of Michel Foucault, and for economic theology as a paradigm and analytical strategy. Queries to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, Dept. of Sociology & Criminology, UCC Stefan’s presentation is based on the recently edited Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology. Stefan Schwarzkopf is Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His research focuses on the economic sociology of markets and innovation, and he has written widely about market technologies, consumption, and about the market research industry. Some of his latest work deals with the ascetic-sectarian nature of the new data and electronic surveillance industries. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the SOCIAL-THEORY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=SOCIAL-THEORY&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SOCIAL-THEORY, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/