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Too Real an Unreality: Financial Markets as Occult
Philip Grant
At the end of it all, the Queen defecates—gold bars. The queen in question is Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (and quite a few other places beside), but here she is presented more simply as the “Queen of England,” just like the woman she has been conversing with through the short performance. That woman too is a Queen Elizabeth, or better still, was , since she died in 1603. As befits the dead, perhaps, she doesn’t…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2015
Category
Economy, Capitalism
Subjects
Money & Finance, The Occult & Mysticism, Algorithms