Waiting for Foucault

“Power" is the intellectual black hole into which all kinds of cultural contents get sucked, if before it was “social solidarity” or “material advantage”. 

The concept of money, on which Economic Science has been running, is highly artificial, historically particular and profoundly ideological. I say “ideological” because the promulgation of this fiction, in the same way as the promulgation of the essentialist doctrine of culture, has evident colonizing effects. Clearly the spread of the money concept is useful to the imperialist ambitions of Western capitalism. Yet just as the totalized notion of “culture” constructed by anthropologists, this “money” is a metaphysical phantom, fundamentally and incurably equivocal. Money, like culture, is a pseudo-entity. And a fool is easily separated from both.