Michel Feher’s new book “Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age” offers both critical evaluations and political discussions of the existing socio-economic theories about the dynamics of capitalism in the past half-century and the possible alternative directions current capitalism could take. Feher argues that whether we are a company in search of funding from shareholders, an indebted public authority seeking bondholders, or an instrumentally precarious individual in need of social benefits, we would all be subject to the issue of accreditation and indebtedness, in which being an investee is more appreciated in an age in which investors have become all-powerful.
Articles by Wei-Ping Chen
Wei-Ping Chen is a PhD candidate in sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Her research focuses on the intertwining of consumerist capitalism, media culture, gender, intimate relationships, and emotions.