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Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst

The social theorist’s oscillation between the market as the artifact of knowledge and as evidence of its limits finds powerful expression in the events now shaping the financial world. In the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis and the consciousness of so-called “systemic risk” amplified, the failure of the economic models that were the source of central bankers’ expertise to offer useful predictions or finetuned policy solutions to recent market problems, and current efforts by global banks to do away with the regulation and management of the market by state actors altogether... [T]he central bankers at the Bank of Japan...were both amazed at what they imagined as their own creation—a global market of seemingly infinite scale and complexity—and fearful of their own powerlessness vis-a-vis their creation. In particular, these central bankers’ sense of powerlessness took the form of a heightened awareness of the contradictions in their role as creators and guardians of the global market. (Riles 2001: 6