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Out of what little I do remember from my high-school years, there is the memory of that morning when my then philosophy professor––who was wont to lecture while cleaving the air around him with his big hands––talked about Adam Smith’s view of economics, whereby the choices made by individuals in the competitive environment of the so-called free market would unintentionally but surely benefit the wider community. Smith likened that unconscious intentionality to an “invisible hand.” This powerful image has haunted me ever since; and yet, it was not until years later that I came to know how, after its first appearance in the 18th century, that figure had been deployed on numerous other occasions to describe and justify the metaphorical and material forms of the Western European suprematist agenda. I came to understand how, rather than a natural occurrence or some automated dynamic, that imaginary agency was an “adaptive truth-for,” as Sylvia Wynter would call it: a cultural and...More
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Out of what little I do remember from my high-school years, there is the memory of that morning when my then philosophy professor––who was wont to lecture while cleaving the air around him with his big hands––talked about Adam Smith’s view of economics, whereby the choices made by individuals in the competitive environment of the so-called free market would unintentionally but surely benefit the wider community. Smith likened that unconscious intentionality to an “invisible hand.” This powerful image has haunted me ever since; and yet, it was not until years later that I came to know how, after its first appearance in the 18th century, that figure had been deployed on numerous other occasions to describe and justify the metaphorical and material forms of the Western European suprematist agenda. I came to understand how, rather than a natural occurrence or some automated dynamic, that imaginary agency was an “adaptive truth-for,” as Sylvia Wynter would call it: a cultural and...More
